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10 Heller Greifenstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Greifenstein an der Donau (Municipality of Greifenstein on the Danube, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse with a simple dashed rectangular border in brown. The heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Greifenstein a/s. D.' is printed in blackletter at the top, below which a multi-line text passage in smaller Gothic type details the authorisation, denominations in circulation, the redemption obligation, and a counterfeiting warning. A hand-applied oval blue municipality seal at the upper centre authenticates the note, with the issue date 'Greifenstein a/d. D., am 30. Juni 1920' closing the text. |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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Greifenstein an der Donau is a village of a few hundred souls perched above the Danube northwest of Klosterneuburg — hardly the kind of place one expects to find an issuing authority. But in 1920, Austria's postwar currency chaos was acute enough that hundreds of municipalities printed their own small-denomination emergency notes, Notgeld, to compensate for a catastrophic shortage of coin. The central government had neither the metal nor the logistics to supply the countryside.
The official seal was the only security feature the village could realistically apply, and it would have been enough — nobody was counterfeiting 10 Heller from Greifenstein.