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10 Heller Hallein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hallein |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Three arched architectural vignettes in orange-red and black; denomination '10 HELLER' in side arches, validity and redemption text in central arch. Issuer name 'STADTGEMEINDE HALLEIN' below, with three manuscript signatures and Bavarian dialect verses in margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wer no nöt bastln ko, / UNSERER HANDE KRAFT / 10 / NEUES LEBEN SCHAFFT / SCHÜLER-WERKSTÄTTE HALLEIN / Daß ondaswo a so wird. |
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Hallein's 10 Heller note belongs to the vast Austrian Notgeld wave of 1920, when municipal governments across the former Habsburg territories issued their own emergency small-change paper to compensate for the chronic disappearance of coins from circulation. The printing house R. Kiesel was a Salzburg regional firm that handled several of these local issues — workmanlike output, not collector-oriented. Three signatures appear on this note, which was unusually formal for a small-denomination municipal emergency piece.
The watermarked paper is the one detail worth pausing on: not all Hallein Notgeld carried it, and its presence or absence distinguishes variants within the JPR0344 series.