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10 Heller Oehling
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Oehling |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark olive-green on salmon-orange paper, with a geometric Art Nouveau border frame enclosing the entire composition. A central oval vignette presents a townscape of Oehling with a church tower and municipal buildings set against a clouded sky, the oval supported below by a decorative spray of foliage. A small rectangular vignette in the upper left corner contains a sheaf of grain, while the denomination numeral '10' appears in the lower centre panel flanked by the words 'ZEHN' and 'HELLER'. Issuer information is lettered in a stylised typeface at the upper right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark olive-green on salmon-orange paper within a simple vertical-rule border at left and right. The field is occupied entirely by typeset text in German setting out the legal guarantee clause, followed by the redemption deadline and the printed names and titles of the three municipal signatories; the printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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Oehling is a small rural municipality in Lower Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communes from 1919 onward as small coinage vanished entirely from circulation. The printer, Queiser of Amstetten, handled emergency currency for a number of communities in the St. Pölten-Amstetten corridor — a regional shop producing local solutions to a national coinage shortage.
Three signatories is unusual for a note of this denomination. Josef Hinterholzer, Franz Hehenberger, and Johann Kickinger likely represented the municipal council quorum required to validate the issue, a formality that added legal weight to what was essentially printed scrip.