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10 Heller Geretsberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Geretsberg (Municipality of Geretsberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue Notgeld voucher with a double-ruled outer border enclosing a guilloche underprint. The heading 'Gut-Schein' in large Gothic letterpress type appears at the top, flanked by ornamental cross-patterned corner blocks, with the issuing authority 'Gemeinde Geretsberg, O.-Ö.' immediately below. The denomination '10 Heller' is set in bold type within a central cartouche, flanked by two columns of text detailing redemption terms, the validity date of 30 November 1920, and facsimile signatures of deputy mayor Jakob Flachner at left and mayor Franz Kreil at right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in blue and brown, with a broad border of interlocking loop guilloche ornament enclosing an unadorned central field. A horizontal rectangular frame at centre carries the denomination in brown Gothic letterpress type, with the numeral '10' set within a raised central box flanked by the word 'Heller' on each side. The composition is strictly typographic, with the repeating guilloche border providing the sole decorative element. |
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Geretsberg is a small Upper Austrian village — population in 1920 was under a thousand — and this 10 Heller Notgeld is exactly the kind of emergency scrip that proliferated across Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural municipalities unable to obtain adequate coinage. The dual signature requirement, Jakob Flachner and Franz Kreil, was a deliberate local accountability measure, not a printing-house convention.
The JPR0231a series is locally printed and shows it. Collector demand for Geretsberg material has always been thin, which paradoxically makes run-complete sets harder to assemble than those from larger towns that attracted more speculative hoarding at time of issue.