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10 Heller Krumau am Kamp
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Krumau am Kamp |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0487c-10 |
| Obverse description | Printed in red-orange on cream paper, the obverse is framed by an ornate border with rosette vignettes at each corner and decorative guilloche panels on the left and right margins, each bearing the numeral '10'. The centre carries a landscape vignette of a riverside village with ruins and trees, beneath the bold Gothic-script legends 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Krumau am Kamp über ZEHN HELLER'. Validity text 'Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920' appears in the lower-left panel, a counterfeiting warning below it, and a municipal liability clause in the lower-right panel, with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature across the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-orange on plain cream paper with no border or vignette ornamentation, carrying only typeset Gothic-script text arranged in five centred lines. The legends identify the issuer as 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Krumau am Kamp', state the face value, and specify the redemption conditions, including the validity deadline of 31 December 1920 and the requirement for personal presentation at the municipal treasury between 16 and 31 December 1920. |
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Krumau am Kamp is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities during World War I, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — when the central authorities could no longer guarantee a supply of small change. The 10 Heller denomination addressed a specific practical problem: coins had been hoarded or melted, and everyday transactions below the threshold of larger banknotes had become genuinely difficult.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this within the JPR0487 series for Krumau am Kamp, suggesting multiple denominations were issued under the same local authorization.