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10 Heller Niedertalheim
| Issuer | Gemeindevorstehung Niedertalheim (Municipality of Niedertalheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Printed on pink paper with a light guilloche underprint within a plain ruled border, the text-only reverse opens with the issuing authority's name in bold across the top, followed by a body text in Gothic script detailing the legal basis for the emergency currency issue, a boxed notice specifying the redemption period through 31 December 1920, an anti-counterfeiting warning, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Signature(s) | Alois Schick |
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Niedertalheim is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural municipalities unable to obtain sufficient coinage, prompting hundreds of local governments — Gemeinden — to issue their own Notgeld under emergency provisions. Niedertalheim's series falls among the most modest of these emissions, produced for purely practical local use rather than the collector-targeted decorative Notgeld that larger towns were simultaneously churning out.
Signed by Alois Schick, the Gemeindevorsteher at the time of issue.