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10 Heller Grünau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grünau (Municipality of Grünau), Lower Austria |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress on cream paper. The central vignette, set within an oval frame, presents a fine line-engraved view of the parish church of Grünau surrounded by mature trees and a stone wall with steps leading to the entrance. Denomination numerals "10" appear in bold blackletter type within ruled boxes at upper left and right, with stylised foliate and floral ornaments in vertical panels flanking the central oval. The issuer inscription runs across the full width of the lower border panel in Gothic script. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a ghost underprint reproducing the obverse design in pale grey. The text block, set in Gothic blackletter script, comprises three paragraphs stating the legal basis and redemption terms of the notgeld, followed by the issuing authority's designation; the printer's imprint appears in small roman type at the foot of the note. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of the early 1920s tends to blur together, but the Grünau 10 Heller is a Sommer imprint — a St. Pölten printer responsible for a significant portion of Lower Austrian community issues in this period. The Gemeinde would have commissioned the note locally, bypassing Vienna entirely, as was common practice once the postwar coin shortage forced hundreds of small municipalities to produce their own fractional paper.
The Heller itself was a dying unit by 1920 — Austria would abandon it entirely in 1924 during the currency reform that introduced the Schilling system.