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10 Heller Oberachmann
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberachmann (Municipality of Oberachmann) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0680b-10 |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE OBERACHMANN Die Gemeinde Oberachmann haftet für die Einlösung. Gültig bis 30. Juni 1921. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Der Bürgermeister: Franz Ecker |
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| Reverse lettering | Mit Sitzungs-Beschluß der Gemeinde Oberachmann vom 12./V. 1920 wurde die Ausgabe dieses Notgeldes genehmigt. Die Gemeinde haftet mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen für die Einlösung. |
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Oberachmann is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy after 1918. These hyperlocal issues were often signed by the sitting mayor and stamped with a municipal seal to lend them whatever authority a village could muster. Franz Ecker's signature here places him as Bürgermeister at the time of issue.
The JPR prefix in the Jaksch/Pick reference identifies this as an Austrian rural Notgeld type — the "b" suffix variant within the 10 Heller denomination suggests at least two distinct printings or paper variants exist for this municipality.