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10 Heller Oberkappel
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberkappel (Municipality of Oberkappel) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown letterpress note on cream paper, with the denomination numeral '10' in large bold blackletter type at both left and right margins. The central field is dominated by an octagonal geometric frame enclosing a circular vignette of a well or public fountain, flanked by the split text 'Ge-mein-de' and surmounted by the word 'Gutscheine' in blackletter script. Naive pen-and-ink style vignettes of village street scenes with houses and trees occupy the lower-left and lower-right corners, with 'Oberkappel' in large blackletter type along the bottom. |
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| Signature(s) | Alois Huber |
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Oberkappel is a small parish commune in the Mühlviertel district of Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave — the emergency small-change issues that flooded the country between roughly 1919 and 1922 when metal coinage had all but vanished from circulation. Thousands of municipalities issued their own. Most were printed locally on whatever materials were available, which is exactly what happened here.
The single signatory, Alois Huber, almost certainly served as Bürgermeister at the time of issue. Local authority, local paper, local accountability.