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| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterbrühl (Municipality of Hinterbrühl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note with an ornate floral border enclosing the denomination numeral '10' in each corner within circular cartouches. A central landscape vignette renders a wooded ravine or gorge in fine line engraving. Authorisation text in gothic script occupies the left and right panels, and three manuscript signatures appear below the vignette above the spelled-out denomination 'ZEHN' and 'HELLER' in framed panels at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unbordered reverse in blue, with a line-engraved vignette at left showing the Julienturm (a medieval stone tower) with a standing figure in the foreground and clouds above, captioned 'JULIENTURM'. To the right, three blocks of text set in roman type state the redemption conditions, the penalty for counterfeiting, the place and date of issue, and the printer's imprint. |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village south of Vienna, best known as the site of the Seegrotte — a flooded gypsum mine later used for aircraft production under Nazi occupation. In 1920, the municipality was issuing its own emergency small change for far more mundane reasons: the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left Austria chronically short of coins, and hundreds of communities printed their own Notgeld to fill the gap.
Wehhofer of nearby Mödling was a local jobbing printer, not a security press. That matters when assessing paper quality and consistency across the run.