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10 Heller Lichtenegg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lichtenegg bei Wels |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 75 × 57 mm |
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| Obverse description | Tan-brown notgeld printed in dark violet-brown ink, enclosed within a simple rectangular border with ornamental corner flourishes. The upper portion carries an oval vignette of an industrial or town skyline with chimneys and buildings rendered in a woodcut-style letterpress technique. Below the vignette, a five-line Gothic-script text in Fraktur typeface states the issuing authority and the resolution date of 8 May 1920, with a note that the expiry date would be announced in the two local Wels newspapers. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Lichtenegg bei Wels gibt auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 8. Mai 1920 Gutscheine aus. Das Ende der Giltigkeitsdauer wird in den beiden Welser Lokalblättern bekanntgegeben |
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Lichtenegg bei Wels is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between roughly 1918 and 1922 — a period when chronic coin shortages, postwar economic dislocation, and the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system pushed even tiny rural communes to print their own emergency fractional currency. Municipal authorities had no formal printing infrastructure, so these issues were typically produced by local printers on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and register precision across Austrian communal Notgeld.