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10 Heller Herzogenburg
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a simple guilloche border of repeating geometric ornaments. At the top, the issuer name 'Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg.' is printed in Gothic blackletter script, with the word 'Gutschein' below in a slightly larger face. The denomination '10 Heller' appears in large numeral at centre, flanked on both sides by the text '10 Heller', with a multi-line letterpress text at the foot reading the terms of issue and the series notation 'Serie 3' at left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg. Gutschein über 10 Heller 10 Heller Serie 3 Dieser Gutschein wird im Verkehre mit unserer Kundschaft zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot ausgegeben und für obigen Betrag eingelöst. |
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Herzogenburg is a small market town in Lower Austria, and in 1920 its local print shop was doing what hundreds of Austrian municipalities were doing simultaneously: producing emergency small change to fill the void left by a collapsed imperial coinage system. The postwar shortage of metal coins was acute enough that even modest-sized towns issued their own notgeld, and printers like Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg found themselves briefly in the currency business by necessity rather than expertise.
These hyperlocal issues typically circulated only within the issuing community and were redeemed — or simply abandoned — within months.