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10 Heller Heiligenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Heiligenberg (Municipality of Heiligenberg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this plain municipal Notgeld issue is unadorned, consistent with the utilitarian typeset production typical of Austrian Gemeinde emergency currency of 1920, likely carrying only the denomination value in Fraktur letterpress. |
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| Signature(s) | Watzenböck (Bürgermeister) |
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Heiligenberg is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities in 1920 as the post-imperial coinage shortage refused to ease. The Austro-Hungarian crown system had collapsed with the empire itself, and small-denomination metal coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, exported, or melted — leaving village administrations to print their own fractional scrip simply to conduct daily commerce.
The single signature, that of Bürgermeister Watzenböck, marks this as a purely local instrument with no banking infrastructure behind it whatsoever.