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10 Heller Hadersfeld
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hadersfeld im Wienerwald (Municipality of Hadersfeld, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 88 x 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on thin wood veneer with a green clover-leaf floral border. Central vignette shows a hare in an oval frame, flanked by two red circular denomination numerals reading '10'. The issuer name appears in Gothic script at top, with date and burgomaster signature at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed on the natural wood grain reverse in green ink. Large bold numerals '10' over the denomination 'HELLER' dominate the centre, flanked by symmetrical decorative scroll vignettes with small red overprint numerals. Redemption text appears in Gothic script in both lateral panels within a scalloped green border. |
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Hadersfeld is a village of a few hundred people tucked into the Wienerwald west of Klosterneuburg, and this note is among the more extreme examples of the Notgeld phenomenon taken to its material limits. By 1920, Austrian municipalities had been issuing emergency paper for years, but some communities — particularly those near timber operations — turned to wood veneer as a practical substitute. The Ungarholz sawmill in Klosterneuburg supplied the Sperrholzplatten stock, which gave the issuing authority access to a material that was locally abundant and essentially impossible to replicate by hand.
Wood-veneer Notgeld is inherently fragile across the grain and susceptible to splitting at the edges — condition problems that are structural rather than a sign of heavy use.