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10 Heller Langenlois
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Langenlois (Market Town of Langenlois) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan paper Notgeld note printed in dark brown letterpress. The centre vignette presents a detailed architectural view of the Langenlois town hall (Rathaus), flanked symmetrically on left and right by ornate rosette cartouches each enclosing the numeral '10'. The heading in Fraktur script reads 'Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Langenlois' with 'Zehn Heller' repeated on either side; below the vignette a two-line liability clause and the issue date 'Langenlois, 22. Februar 1920' appear, followed by three manuscript signature lines for the Vize-Bürgermeister, the Bürgermeister, and the geschäftsführende Gemeinderat. |
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| Reverse lettering | Aus Papier die ganze Welt, Warum nicht auch das Loiser Geld. Für diese Scheine kriegst du Wein, Doch müssen ihrer viele sein. Dieser Kassenschein ist unverzinslich und wird in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 von der Gemeinde Langenlois in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Langenlois is the largest wine-producing municipality in Austria, and its 1920 Heller notgeld reflects the acute coin shortage that followed the dissolution of the Habsburg empire — not a local financial crisis, but a nationwide collapse in small-denomination metal currency that forced hundreds of Austrian market towns to print their own. The Marktgemeinde series from this period was typically produced on whatever paper stock was locally available, often by regional printers with no formal banknote experience.
Notgeld of this type was redeemable only within the issuing community, which kept most pieces in tight local circulation and paradoxically preserved many in near-unissued condition when redemption windows closed.