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10 Heller Kreuzen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kreuzen (Market Town of Kreuzen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Dark red letterpress on cream paper. The central vignette presents a detailed landscape view of the market town of Kreuzen, with a prominent church steeple rising above clustered village buildings set among rolling hills and fields, signed by the artist 'Th. Weiser' at lower left. The denomination '10' appears at upper left and upper right flanking the title inscription 'Heller Gutschein Heller', while below the vignette the issuer name 'Marktgemeinde Kreuzen' is printed in bold type, with three facsimile signatures of municipal officials — the Bürgermeister (Johann Aderbryds) flanked by the I. and II. Vizebürgermeister — arranged across the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Kreuzen haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein vier Wochen nach Veröffentlichung in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Nachahmung wird bestraft. M. Engel & Söhne, Wien, VII. |
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Kreuzen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that persisted well into the early 1920s. The 10 Heller denomination sits at the lowest practical end of the Notgeld range, intended to substitute for the copper and bronze coinage that had largely vanished from circulation by the war's end.
M. Engel & Söhne in Vienna handled a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld commissions from Upper and Lower Austrian communities during this period, producing runs that were often quite small. The JPR0479 series for Kreuzen is among the more obscure local issues catalogued by Jaksch.