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10 Heller Sankt Peter am Wimberg 1920
| Issuer | Sankt Peter am Wimberg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the note is set within a decorative folkart border of interlaced floral and scrollwork ornaments. At centre, a heart-shaped vignette encloses two stylised birds flanking a cross, above the municipal coat of arms of Sankt Peter am Wimberg bearing a rooster. The denomination '10' appears in ornate Gothic numerals at upper left and upper right, with the word 'Heller' inscribed in calligraphic script on either side; two blocks of Gothic text flanking the central vignette state the redemption conditions, and a facsimile signature appears at lower right. A dialectal verse runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sankt Peter am Wimberg 10 Heller Wir Bau'n von Sankt Peter ham z'erst on Aufstand ang'jagt ham glei aller Wild'n on Pfarra vajagt, hab'm gmoant äs wird besser, ham's aba dafrugt anno 1626 |
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Sankt Peter am Wimberg is a small Upper Austrian commune, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities in 1920 it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small coinage that persisted well after the armistice. The Austrian state simply could not mint fast enough to meet demand, leaving towns to fill the gap themselves.
The Jaksc catalogue documents over a thousand such Austrian municipal issues; this 10 Heller piece is among the more obscure, from a village whose total population barely registered against the administrative chaos of the collapsing Habsburg monetary system.