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10 Heller Kirchdorf am Inn
| Issuer | Municipality of Kirchdorf am Inn |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress notgeld on plain paper with an ornate scrollwork and dotted border frame. The denomination numeral '10' appears in oval guilloche cartouches at left and right, with the central inscription 'Zehn Heller' in Gothic script flanked by decorative horizontal bands. Below, a five-line redemption text and a counterfeiting warning are set in roman type, concluded by the title 'Der Bürgermeister' with a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Kirchdorf/Inn 10 Zehn Heller Dieser Gutschein wird über Beschluß des Gemeindeausschußes im Sinne der erfolgten Kundmachung von der Gemeinde bis 31 Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichen Bargeld eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Kirchdorf am Inn is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian towns and villages during the acute coin shortage of 1920. The federal government's failure to produce sufficient small-denomination coinage forced even minor localities to print their own emergency money — legally tolerated, though the whole system was wound down by 1922 when the new Schilling-era coinage supply stabilized.
JPR0444a places this within the Jaksch-Pick Austrian Notgeld reference, which catalogs thousands of these municipal issues. Kirchdorf am Inn's run was small even by Notgeld standards.