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| Issuer | Stadt-Gemeinde Klagenfurt (City Municipality of Klagenfurt) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely covered by a fine, all-over guilloche rosette pattern printed in blue on cream-white paper, providing a decorative security underprint with no additional text or vignette elements. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Pressien (Deputy Mayor) and Friedrich Weklar (Mayor) |
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This is Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued when small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Klagenfurt, suddenly the capital of the newly constituted Austrian state of Carinthia, was simultaneously managing a currency crisis and a territorial one: Yugoslav forces had occupied parts of the region, and a plebiscite to determine Carinthia's future would not be held until October 1920.
The Guilloche underprint, a basic anti-counterfeiting measure borrowed from conventional banknote printing, was applied locally — modest security for a note that was never intended to circulate beyond the city limits.