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10 Heller Himberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Himberg (Market Town of Himberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green Notgeld voucher printed by letterpress, with three small photographic vignettes of local Himberg townscapes arranged across the upper portion. The denomination numeral '10' appears in the upper left and right corners, flanked by 'HELLER' in bold lettering, with the title 'GUTSCHEIN' in a curved banner across the top. At centre, a shield bearing the municipal coat of arms of Himberg is set against a radiating star underprint, with the issuing authority inscription 'DER MARKTGEMEINDE HIMBERG' arching around it, and two facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Gemeinderat at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 HELLER GUTSCHEIN 10 HELLER DER MARKTGEMEINDE HIMBERG ZEIT VON 1. 30 APRIL 1920 IN ÖBUMLAUFEM DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER GEMEINDERAT |
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Himberg is a small market town southeast of Vienna, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued by municipalities when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation after World War One. Thousands of Austrian communes did the same between 1919 and 1921, but the sheer volume of issues means condition and provenance still vary enormously across surviving examples.
The print date of 30 April 1945 logged against a 1920 issue is almost certainly a cataloging or archive entry date — the fall of Berlin and the Soviet encirclement of Vienna both occurred that same week.