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10 Heller Regau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Regau (Municipality of Regau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress notgeld on cream paper, enclosed within a thin rectangular border. To the left, a vignette presents a detailed view of the Regau parish church with its tall steeple, surrounded by village buildings and trees, rendered in a fine line-art style within a curved cartouche. To the right, the issuing authority and denomination are inscribed in decorative script lettering, reading "Gutschein der Gemeinde Regau für 10 Heller". |
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| Signature(s) | Pfarrer Karl Oßberger (Deputy Mayor) and Karl Neuhuber (Mayor) |
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Regau is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld pieces issued by Austrian municipalities following the economic collapse at the end of the First World War. The central government could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday transactional needs, so local authorities — villages, towns, businesses, even individual merchants — stepped in with their own emergency scrip. The arrangement was technically provisional but persisted well into the early 1920s.
The countersignature of Pfarrer Karl Oßberger as Deputy Mayor is an unusual detail — a parish priest holding civic executive office in this period was not unheard of in rural Upper Austria, but it remains a distinctly local particularity worth noting.