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10 Heller Innerschwandt

Issuer Gemeinde Innerschwandt (Municipality of Innerschwandt)
Year 1920
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Currency Krone (1918-1921)
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Reverse lettering 10 Heller
VOLKSSCHULE LOLBICHL
Signature(s) M. Wendtner
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Innerschwandt is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a period when the post-war collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural municipalities issuing their own emergency scrip simply to make change. The central government could not supply small-denomination coins fast enough, and thousands of communes, down to genuinely tiny settlements, stepped in with locally authorized paper.

The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0408-10 places this among the more obscure Austrian municipal issues — Innerschwandt generated very little documented circulation volume, and surviving examples are correspondingly rare in the collector market.

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