Catalog
10 Heller Grödig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grödig (Municipality of Grödig) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN D. GEMEINDE GRÖDIG ÜBER 10 HELLER UNTERSBERGSAGEN DIE VIER MUSIKANTEN BEI KAISER KARL D. G. IM UNTERSBERG |
| Reverse description | The upper portion presents a green and brown vignette set within a rocky cave frame, showing a silhouetted herdsman and a child approaching an illuminated grotto interior. A green caption panel below identifies the scene, followed by four lines of bold letterpress text stating the redemption conditions and date. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note beneath printed role designations. |
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Grödig is a small municipality just south of Salzburg, and like hundreds of Austrian communes it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1919 onward. These hyper-local issues were produced in tiny quantities, often at provincial print shops, and were redeemable only within the issuing community. The 10 Heller denomination was among the smallest practical units issued, reflecting just how completely metal coinage had vanished from everyday transactions.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch-Pick corpus of Austrian municipal Notgeld — a classification system that acknowledges just how fragmented and poorly documented many of these issues remain.