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10 Heller Grein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Grein |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within an elaborate Art Nouveau scrollwork border with crosshatched corner cartouches. A central oval vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Grein, with a church steeple rising above closely grouped rooftops against a mountainous backdrop. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large letterpress characters within ornamental frames on both the left and right margins, and the issuer inscription 'Stadtgemeinde Grein' runs across the top in decorative Gothic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Grein 10 |
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Grein is a small market town on the Danube in Upper Austria, and its 1920 Heller notgeld belongs to the vast wave of locally issued emergency money that flooded Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left the new republic without a functioning small-change supply. The Stadtgemeinde commissioned printing from Hiebl, a local firm — an arrangement typical of the notgeld period, where municipal authorities turned to whoever had a press nearby rather than any established security printer.
Hiebl's involvement is worth noting: purely local production with no security features of consequence, which made counterfeiting theoretically trivial, though the denominations were too small to bother.