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10 Heller Holzhausen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Holzhausen (Municipality of Holzhausen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown-grey tones within a decorative scrollwork border. The denomination '10' appears in large numerals at both upper corners, with the inscription 'zehn Heller' across the top panel. To the left, a portrait vignette of a bearded Renaissance-era nobleman — identified by a caption as Heinrich Götzl von Holzhausen — is set within a ruled cartouche, accompanied by a coat of arms. The central panel carries the redemption text in German Gothic script, with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature below. To the right, a landscape vignette presents the village church of Holzhausen amid trees. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same brown-grey palette and enclosed by a continuous scrollwork border matching the obverse. Two landscape vignettes of equal size are placed side by side: the left panel shows a two-storey residential building with a porch and picket fence rendered in fine line engraving; the right panel presents a rural street scene with a tall wayside cross or monument in the foreground and a church steeple visible in the background. A small printer's imprint appears in the lower margin. |
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Austrian Notgeld from the chaotic post-WWI period, when chronic coin shortages forced thousands of municipalities to print their own emergency small-change notes. Holzhausen was one of hundreds of tiny communities that commissioned local printers to fill the gap left by a collapsed imperial monetary system — the federal government had neither the capacity nor the coin metal to remedy the problem quickly.
The JPR0396a series encompasses multiple denominations from this issue. Heller-denomination Notgeld from small rural Austrian communes tends to survive in collector hands rather than circulated ones, as many were produced with the souvenir trade already in mind by 1920.