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10 Heller Langenstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Langenstein (Commune of Langenstein, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on cream paper, the obverse presents a folk-costumed woman standing to the left within a decorative scrollwork frame, holding flowers, beside a large ornate numeral '9' vignette. To the right, a detailed woodcut-style view of the ruins of Spielberg castle set among trees fills the upper half of the note. The denomination '10 Heller' is set in bold Gothic script across the lower centre, with the commune name 'Langenstein ob Ost.' inscribed along the left border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Langenstein ob Ost. Gutschein 10 Heller Spielberg-jetzt- |
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Langenstein is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian crown's purchasing power after the First World War left the central government unable to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, forcing thousands of communes — many of them tiny — to print their own emergency fractional currency. Langenstein was one of hundreds that complied, issuing locally authorized scrip that was technically redeemable but rarely formally retired.
Heller-denomination Notgeld from villages this small tends to survive in higher condition than urban issues, simply because rural circulation was lighter.