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10 Heller Gmunden
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Gmunden (City of Gmunden) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper with a floral guilloche underprint border. A central vignette presents a letterpress line illustration of a large multi-storey town building, flanked on either side by the bold denomination numeral '10' above the legend 'Heller'. The header carries the title inscription, and the lower margin bears the date and the signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor). |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper, the reverse carries the title legend at the top, with the denomination '10 HELLER (ZEHN) 10' set around a central ornate cartouche bearing a coat of arms vignette. Below, a full block of German text in small letterpress type sets out the legal basis and redemption terms of the emergency currency issue. |
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Gmunden's 10 Heller notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria in 1919–1920, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local authorities scrambling to cover a crippling shortage of small-denomination coins. Cities, towns, market communes, and even individual businesses issued their own scrip — legally tolerated, though technically irregular — because the central authorities simply could not supply enough low-value coinage fast enough.
The Jaksc prefix in the reference number situates this within the specialized Austrian notgeld cataloguing system rather than the standard Pick sequence, reflecting just how vast and locally fragmented this material is.