Catalog
10 Heller Lochen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lochen (Municipality of Lochen) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Lochen 10 10 |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in green on grey paper, is dominated by a large octagonal cartouche at centre bearing the stylised denomination inscription 'He|10|er' (Heller) in bold interlocking letterforms. An Art Nouveau spiral scroll border frames the entire field, and below the cartouche a two-column text block states the redemption conditions, concluding with the issuing authority. The printer's imprint 'Druck von J. Moser, Braunau am Inn' appears along the bottom margin. |
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Lochen is a small parish municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest communities, it issued Heller notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from 1920 onward. These hyperlocal emissions were a practical fix — printed in small runs by local job printers, authorized by the municipal council, and intended to circulate only within the issuing community.
J. Moser in Braunau am Inn handled printing for several regional municipalities, which accounts for the family resemblance across notgeld from this pocket of Upper Austria. The JPR0559c designation indicates a third paper variant within the Lochen series, suggesting the municipality returned to press at least twice.