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10 Heller Grünburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grünburg (Municipality of Grünburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Heller 10 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Grünburg Ob. Öst. |
| Reverse description | Plain buff paper with a simple letterpress frame of repeating numeral '10' along all margins, with corner numerals '10' at each angle. The upper portion carries the title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Grünburg.' in large Gothic type, followed by a block of Gothic text setting out the legal redemption terms by resolution of the municipal committee dated 17 February 1920. Three manuscript signatures appear below, preceded by their respective printed titles, with an anti-counterfeiting notice in a ruled box beneath, and the edition designation '1. Auflage' at lower left. |
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Grünburg is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — issued after the First World War, when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The postwar coin shortage was severe enough that hundreds of Austrian communities printed their own paper to fill the gap, most of it in 1920.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this firmly in the documented series, but Grünburg's issues are not among the heavily traded collector targets — survival rates are reasonable, and heavily worn examples are the norm rather than the exception.