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10 Heller Neukirchen bei Lambach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neukirchen bei Lambach (Municipality of Neukirchen bei Lambach) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld on cream paper with a scalloped decorative border. Two local architectural vignettes flank the central design — a farmstead with trees at left and a village house with figures at right — with the numeral '10' set between two rosette ornaments at the top centre beneath the denomination legend 'Heller 10 Heller'. The central cartouche carries a four-line dialect verse in Gothic script, with repeating '10' numerals filling the lateral borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Neukirchen bei Lambach. Die Gemeinde Neukirchen haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld bis 31. Dezember 1920 einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Der Bürgermeister: Franz Schmalwieser. Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues printed during the severe coin shortage of the First World War and its immediate aftermath, this 10 Heller note from the small Upper Austrian municipality of Neukirchen bei Lambach belongs to a category of emergency municipal scrip that was technically illegal under imperial monetary law — yet tolerated, then retrospectively authorized, because the alternative was simply no small change at all.
The signatory, Franz Schmalwieser, was almost certainly the Bürgermeister at time of issue. Local officials signed these personally, which made each note a quasi-municipal guarantee rather than a banking instrument.