Catalog
10 Heller Hollenstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hollenstein an der Ybbs |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0395-10 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Hollenstein an der Ybbs 10 Zehn Heller |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Hollenstein an der Ybbs für 10 Heller. Diese Gutscheine sind unverzinslich und werden bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: Alfred Paul. Bürgermeister-Stellv.: Anton Hochleitner. 1. Gemeinderat: Leopold Haselsteiner. Druckerei Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs, Ges. m. b. H. |
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Hollenstein an der Ybbs is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities after 1914, it issued its own Notgeld when the wartime coin shortage made small change practically unavailable. These 10 Heller notes were a purely local solution — accepted by Hollenstein's merchants but worthless ten kilometers away. The printer, Druckerei Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs, handled Notgeld for several Ybbs valley communities, which occasionally creates attribution confusion between issues from this run.
Three signatories were required: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a senior councillor — a formality meant to give the scrip civic legitimacy it otherwise lacked under Austrian monetary law.