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10 Heller Hellmonsödt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hellmonsödt (Municipality of Hellmonsödt) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gemeinde Hellmonsödt Die Gemeinde Hellmonsödt gibt Gutscheine im Gesammtbetrage von 50000 K aus. Dieselben erlöschen nach öffentlich verlautbarten Endtermin. Serien Nr. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Green letterpress reverse on cream paper, enclosed within a scalloped decorative border with floral corner ornaments. Two vignettes occupy the upper portion: at left, an arched vignette of a medieval tower and gateway entrance set among trees; at right, a panoramic landscape view of Hellmonsödt with its church spire and surrounding fields, signed 'L. Haase, Lin.' The denomination '10 Heller' appears in all four corners, and the town name 'Hellmonsödt' is rendered in large Gothic script across the lower centre. |
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Hellmonsödt is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is one of the thousands of municipal Notgeld issues that flooded Austria in 1920 when chronic coin shortages — driven by postwar metal scarcity and hoarding — left local commerce without usable small change. The Gemeinde, not a bank, was the issuing authority: village councils were printing their own currency.
L. Haase was an established Linz printing house responsible for a number of Upper Austrian municipal issues in this period, lending these notes a consistency of production quality unusual among the more improvised provincial emissions.