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10 Heller Kufstein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Kufstein (City of Kufstein) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink and black Notgeld note centred on a vignette of the Kufstein fortress set within a wreath, with the large numeral '10' to the left and the denomination legend 'Gutschein über Heller' to the upper right; a guilloche underprint covers the entire field. The municipal coat of arms is positioned below the fortress vignette, while the issuer inscription 'Stadtgemeinde Kufstein' in Gothic lettering runs along the lower border. The place and date 'Kufstein, 1. Juli 1919' appear above the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-white reverse carrying a light grey underprint that shows a faint show-through impression of the obverse design elements; no additional vignette, text, or ornamental elements are present. The unadorned reverse is characteristic of the simple, economically produced Austrian Notgeld issues of this period. |
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Kufstein's municipal notgeld from 1919 belongs to the vast wave of Austrian town and district emergency currency issued in the immediate aftermath of collapse — the old imperial supply chains were gone, small coin had essentially vanished from circulation, and local authorities were left to paper over the gap themselves. Stadtgemeinde Kufstein was one of hundreds of Tirolean and Austrian municipalities that printed their own stopgap denominations rather than wait for Vienna to sort itself out.
The Jaksc reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian notgeld corpus, though municipal issues at this denomination were often printed in very small runs and redeemed quickly once Nationalbank coinage stabilized in the early 1920s.