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10 Heller Oehling
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Oehling |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER ORTSGEMEINDE ÖHLING ZEHN HELLER 10 |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Ortsgemeinde Oehling, N.-Oe. gibt wegen Kleingeldmangel Gutscheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus und haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen. Einlöseschluß 31. Dezember 1920. Bürgermeister: Josef Hinterholzer. Vizebürgermeister: Franz Hehenberger. I. Gemeinderat: Johann Kickinger. Queiser, Amstetten. |
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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.