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10 Heller Hohenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Hohenberg (Market Town of Hohenberg) |
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| Size | 101 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink and cream Notgeld voucher with a decorative letterpress border of scrollwork, pinecones, and geometric guilloche elements in the corners. The centre is occupied by the municipal coat of arms of Hohenberg — a crowned shield divided into vertical stripes with a mountain vignette — flanked on either side by the bold denomination '10 HELLER' in large blackletter type. Three manuscript signatures appear below, attributed respectively to the Vice-Mayor (Der Vizebürgermeister), the Mayor (Der Bürgermeister), and a council member (Der Gemeinderat). |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE HOHENBERG Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 10 HELLER Die Gemeinde haftet für die richtige Einlösung mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: Jede Nachahmung wird bestraft Druck von F. WURST in LILIENFELD. |
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Hohenberg is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency — the acute coin shortage that struck Austria-Hungary during the First World War and pushed hundreds of municipalities into issuing their own low-denomination scrip. F. Wurst of nearby Lilienfeld was a regional printer pressed into service for exactly this kind of local contract work, with no pretense of high security printing.
The JPR0388 series encompasses multiple municipalities handled through similar regional arrangements. Variant IIb indicates a second printing or paper stock distinction within the Hohenberg issue — a detail that matters more to series completists than casual collectors.