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10 Heller Maishofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maishofen (Municipality of Maishofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a hand-drawn heraldic vignette in red and black, presenting the municipal coat of arms of Maishofen with a crowned shield supported by foliate mantling. To the right, the denomination '10' appears in large bold numerals at upper right, followed by the text 'HELLER', 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE MAISHOFEN', the validity date 'GÜLTIG BIS 31. OKTOBER 1920', the anti-counterfeiting warning 'NACHAHMUNG STRAFBAR', and the title 'DER BÜRGERMEISTER' above manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 10 10 Heller |
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Maishofen is a small village in the Salzburg region of Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the Habsburg monetary system in collapse and small change chronically absent from circulation, hundreds of communes — many with no prior experience of currency issuance — printed their own fractional notes to keep local commerce functioning. Maishofen was one of the smallest communities to do so.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0572-10 places it firmly in the documented Salzburg provincial series, though surviving examples from villages this size tend to surface rarely.