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10 Heller Kasten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kasten (Municipality of Kasten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange-red border frames the note on all sides, with two vertical white panels at left and right each bearing the bold numeral '10' above the date '1920', flanked by the inscription 'Heller' in Gothic script at upper left and upper right. A central rectangular vignette presents a monochrome townscape of Kasten with a church tower and rooftops set against a distant treeline. At the bottom, a decorative scroll cartouche carries the issuer name 'Gemeinde Kasten' in bold blackletter type. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper ground enclosed by a red diamond-pattern border running along all four edges. The central field is occupied by a multi-line text in blackletter script setting out the redemption obligation of the Gemeinde Kasten, the issuing authority, the date of issue, and an anti-counterfeiting warning. The printer's imprint 'Gross, St. Pölten' appears in small roman type at the lower left margin. |
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Kasten is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the postwar economic collapse that followed the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy. The 10 Heller denomination sits at the low end of what municipalities typically printed, intended as a practical stopgap for small change that had essentially vanished from circulation by 1920.
Gross of St. Pölten handled a substantial volume of Lower Austrian municipal Notgeld contracts in this period, which accounts for the consistent print quality across what are otherwise hyper-local issues.