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10 Heller Maria Laach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling (Municipality of Maria Laach am Jauerling) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in blue on cream paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of the Jauerling observation tower set against a dramatically lined sky, enclosed within a rectangular frame with stylised Art Nouveau scroll ornaments at the sides. Above the vignette, the municipality name is set in large decorative hand-drawn lettering across three lines. Below the central image, the numeral '10' and denomination 'HELLER' appear in bold, with '10h' repeated at lower left and right. Three facsimile manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear at the foot, with their abbreviated titles printed beneath. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on cream paper and carries a ghost watermark-style underprint of the municipality name at left. The upper portion bears a four-line rhyming verse in German Fraktur script. Below, '4. Serie.' appears at left, followed by the bold Fraktur heading 'Jauerlinger Notgeld' and the full issuing authority name. The denomination 'über 10 Heller.' is set in bold, with validity and redemption dates stated in two further lines of text below. |
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Maria Laach am Jauerling is a small wine-producing village in Lower Austria's Wachau region. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own small-denomination emergency paper — Notgeld — to address the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These hyperlocal issues were often printed in tiny quantities for purely practical reasons, then quickly forgotten once the national coinage supply stabilized.
The JPR prefix in the Jaksc catalog places this firmly in the Austrian municipal Notgeld series. Survival rates vary enormously at this denomination; the 10 Heller notes from minor villages were spent and discarded rather than saved.