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10 Heller Neuhaus
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neuhaus im Wienerwald (Municipality of Neuhaus im Wienerwald) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0646g-10 |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Neuhaus im Wienerwald NEYHAUS ANNO 1000 Kaiser Karl VI. hat diese von den Türken verwüstete Burg zur Zierde des Landes im Jahre 1726 wiederhergestellt Bürgermeister: Vize-Bürgermeister: Geschäftsführender Gemeinderat: HELLER 10 Die Gemeinde Neuhaus haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein bis 30. September 1920 einzulösen. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on cream-coloured paper stock, entirely blank aside from natural paper texture and minor toning consistent with age. |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues printed in the wake of the postwar coin shortage, this 10 Heller note from Neuhaus im Wienerwald reflects a specifically local response to a national problem. The Habsburg monarchy's collapse in 1918 left Austria's new republic with a badly disrupted monetary supply — small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost immediately, hoarded or simply absent, and municipalities across Lower Austria began issuing their own emergency fractions to keep everyday trade moving.
Neuhaus im Wienerwald is a small Wienerwald community, and its Notgeld series is not among the widely collected "Kunstnotgeld" issues that Austrian towns produced for the philatelic trade. This is functional emergency paper, issued to be spent.