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10 Heller Freinberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Freinberg (Municipality of Freinberg) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0211Ib-10 |
| Obverse description | Tan paper Notgeld issue printed in dark brown. The upper portion carries the Gothic-script legends 'NOT GELD' at top centre, flanked by ornamental tree vignettes forming the lateral borders. The denomination '10' appears in large numerals at centre, with 'Gemeinde · Heller · Freinberg' inscribed in a curved arc above. Below the denomination, a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister (J. Neulinger) is printed alongside the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dezbr. 1920'. The lower third of the note is occupied by a finely engraved landscape vignette of the village of Freinberg with a church steeple, trees, and a radiating sunburst scene to the right, all enclosed within a decorative guilloche border. |
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| Reverse description | Tan paper printed in dark brown. A decorative chain-link border frames the entire reverse. At the top, the inscription 'Gemeinde Freinberg' is set within a scrollwork header. The central composition is dominated by an oval vignette of the Freinberg village church surrounded by trees and landscaping, itself enclosed within an elaborate acanthus and rocaille cartouche. Flanking the cartouche are two reclining putti figures, each gesturing outward toward the denomination numerals '10' and the word 'Heller' printed symmetrically on either side. A monogram 'W' appears at the base of the central cartouche. |
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Freinberg is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest communities, it issued Notgeld during the coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1920. These emergency municipal notes were produced in enormous variety across the country — the 10 Heller denomination being one of the most common fractional values — and the Freinberg series falls into the category collected primarily for regional completeness rather than rarity.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0211Ib-10 places this within the Austrian local Notgeld corpus. Without documented print run data for Freinberg specifically, circulation and survival figures remain unknown.