Catalog
10 Heller Herzogenburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Herzogenburg (Market Town of Herzogenburg) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg. 2. Auflage Gutschein über Zehn Heller Serie 2 Dieser Gutschein wird im Verkehr mit unserer Kundschaft zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot ausgegeben und für obigen Betrag eingelöst. |
| Reverse description | Beige paper reverse with a green geometric and diamond-pattern underprint border composed of concentric rectangular frames. A central rectangular vignette presents a monochrome photographic view of a two-storey public or civic building in Herzogenburg, flanked by trees and a fence, rendered in letterpress. The reverse carries no text inscriptions, the decorative border serving as the sole ornamental element surrounding the building vignette. |
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Herzogenburg's 10 Heller notgeld was produced locally by the town's own print shop — a arrangement common enough during the post-WWI Austrian currency collapse, when the Vienna government could not supply adequate small change and municipalities were left to improvise. Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg was a commercial printer, not a security press, and the limitations show in the typography.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this within the vast Austrian notgeld cataloguing effort, which documented thousands of such emergency municipal issues. Most circulated briefly and intensely before being demonetized once the new federal currency stabilized.