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| Uitgever | Land Niederösterreich (Province of Lower Austria) |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Green letterpress note with a central landscape vignette of a dramatic alpine cliff face with a viaduct and buildings set among forested hills. The denomination "10 Heller" appears in octagonal panels at upper left and right, with two smaller rural vignettes in the lower corners. A foliate ornamental border frames the entire composition. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Text-only reverse in dark ink on a light guilloche underprint, bearing the full legal redemption text in German Fraktur script. Denomination numeral "10" appears in the upper corners within ornamental frames. Three manuscript facsimile signatures appear below the authorizing text, identified by their respective titles. The printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Niederösterreich's Heller Notgeld issues of 1920 were a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that paralyzed everyday commerce across the former Habsburg lands. The newly truncated Austrian state simply could not mint small change fast enough, so provincial and municipal authorities stepped in with their own emergency paper — legally tolerated, locally circulated, and theoretically redeemable but often not worth the effort.
Christoph Reisser's Söhne was one of Vienna's most established printing houses and handled a substantial share of Austrian Notgeld production during this period. Their work on these provincial issues was competent commercial printing, not fine engraving.
Redemption periods were short and enforcement uneven — many holders simply missed the window.