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10 Heller Reith
| Issuer | Gemeinde Reith in Tirol (Municipality of Reith in Tyrol) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed Notgeld in mauve and cream tones, with a decorative scalloped border and zigzag guilloche underprint filling the central field. The denomination 'Zehn Heller' is rendered in large blackletter (Fraktur) script at centre, flanked on each side by circular cartouches bearing the numeral '10'. Below the denomination, the validity inscription and the facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister appear in two columns. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Reith in Tirol 10 Post Brixlegg, polit. Bez. Kufstein 10 |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from a genuine small-change crisis that followed the First World War. The Austro-Hungarian coinage system had collapsed, metal was scarce, and smaller municipalities across Tyrol began printing their own emergency pfennig and heller notes in 1919–1920 to fill the gap left by the central monetary authorities. Reith im Achensee was one of dozens of Tyrolean communities that issued such fractional paper rather than let local commerce grind to a halt.
The Jaksch cataloguing of Tyrolean Notgeld remains the primary reference for attributing these municipal issues, many of which exist in multiple color or text variants — hence the "a" suffix on this listing.