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10 Heller Hellmonsödt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hellmonsödt (Municipality of Hellmonsödt) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld voucher on cream paper with a decorative Art Nouveau border of stylized oak leaves and radiating fan motifs at the corners. The municipal coat of arms of Hellmonsödt — a shield bearing a standing figure — is printed centrally, flanked by the Gothic-script legends 'Gutschein' and 'Gemeinde' above the town name. A text block below states the total issue amount of 50,000 Kronen and the validity clause, with a series number line and a printed signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde 10 Heller Hellmonsödt L. Haase, Lin. |
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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.