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| Uitgever | Gemeinde Helfenberg (Municipality of Helfenberg) |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Waarde | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Single-sided Notgeld voucher printed in violet-grey on cream paper, with a decorative oak-leaf border running the full perimeter. The large Gothic-script denomination legend 'Zehn Heller' occupies the central band, above which a framed numeral '10' vignette is flanked by two oak-leaf corner ornaments and anti-counterfeiting notices in Fraktur script. The lower portion carries a three-line guarantee text in Gothic script over the issuing authority 'Die Gemeinde Helfenberg', a handwritten Bürgermeister signature, and the issue date 'am 1. Mai 1920'. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | Schloss Helfenberg 10 10 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Gültig bis zu verlautbarten Endtermin Nachahmung strafbar. Heller Helfenberg Ok. Öst. dem öffentlich Endtermin. Nachahmung strafbar. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Helfenberg is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities across the collapsing former Habsburg territories, it issued its own small-denomination emergency currency — Notgeld — when coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The 10 Heller denomination was among the most common targets for local issue, since prewar Heller coins of that value had almost entirely vanished from circulation by 1920, hoarded or melted years earlier.
Austrian municipal Notgeld of this period was rarely redeemed in full. Many communes quietly let redemption deadlines pass, effectively converting the float into local revenue.