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10 Heller Frankenburg
| Issuer | Municipality of Frankenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted note printed in black on a light underprint, with the central text area flanked by two framed vignettes: at left, a landscape view of Schloss Freya, and at right, the parish church (Pfarrkirche). The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold black cartouches at each upper corner, with 'HELLER' in matching cartouches at the lower corners. The central legend identifies the issuing municipality in Gothic blackletter script, with the denomination 'Zehn Hellere' rendered in large decorative script across the middle, followed by a guarantee clause and the date 29/2.1920, below which appears the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Frankenburg über Zehn Hellere Die Gemeinde haftet für die Einlösung und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungs-rücklage bestellt. G.R.S.B.v. 29/2. 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Schloss Freya. Pfarr. Kirche. 10 HELLER |
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Frankenburg am Hausruck is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War left the country with a catastrophic coin shortage. Local governments printed their own small-denomination emergency paper simply to make change — the national government couldn't keep up with demand for low-value coinage, and commerce ground to a halt without it.
E. Driesel's Steyr imprint places this among the locally produced issues rather than the more elaborate collector-targeted Notgeld printed by Vienna houses. Steyr, itself an industrial center with established printing infrastructure, handled a number of regional Upper Austrian issues during this period.