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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Ober-Wölbling (Market Town of Ober-Wölbling) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Ober-Wölbling über 10 Heller Forsthaus Landersdorf DER VICEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER GESCHÄFTSFÜHRENDE GEMEINDERAT: |
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| Reverse lettering | Serie 2 Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Ober-Wölbling über 10 Heller. Die Gemeinde Ober=Wölbling haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Die Kassenscheine werden von der Gemeinde Ober=Wölbling bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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Ober-Wölbling is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a response to chronic coin shortages that left local economies grinding against each other for small change. The Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg, a regional print shop in the nearby town of Herzogenburg, produced notes for several communities in the area during this period, working with whatever typography and stock was available.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was typically withdrawn and demonetized once central coin supplies normalized, making circulated survivors rarer than uncirculated ones — the opposite of the usual pattern.