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10 Heller Hallstatt
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Hallstatt (Market Town of Hallstatt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 96 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Zehn Heller der Markt-Gemeinde Hallstatt Die Marktgemeinde Hallstatt haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Der Bürgermeister: Die Gemeinderäte Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft 1920 Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 |
| Reverse description | White paper with a light blue guilloche underprint, enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular border with fine line-filled corner panels. Bold blackletter denomination numerals '10' appear in square cartouches at upper left and upper right, while a central arched panel carries the issuer's name and validity date in italic script above a radiate sunburst ornament. The large blackletter inscription 'Zehn Heller' dominates the centre over a heraldic shield vignette, with a block of Gothic text below stating the total authorized issue of 50,000 Kronen and the conditions of redemption at the Gemeindekasse. |
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Hallstatt's 10 Heller notgeld from 1920 is a product of the Austrian postwar small-change crisis that paralyzed commerce across hundreds of municipalities. With the old Habsburg coinage effectively hoarded or melted down and the new Republic struggling to supply subsidiary denominations, local authorities were legally permitted — briefly — to issue their own emergency paper. Hallstatt, a market town of fewer than a thousand souls on the Salzkammergut lake, issued its own rather than rely on regional supply that never reliably arrived.
The Jaksc catalog reference places it firmly in the Oberösterreich notgeld corpus. Short-run municipal issues like this were typically redeemed within months.