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10 Heller Schardenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schardenberg (Municipality of Schardenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on white paper, the obverse is dominated by a circular vignette at left portraying a rural alpine village scene with farmhouses set among rocky terrain and trees. The border is composed of a decorative foliate and fruit motif. To the right of the vignette, the denomination inscription 'Zehn Heller' appears in bold Gothic script above a scallop-edged numeral '10' cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Schardenberg. Die Gemeinde Schardenberg, Bezirk Schärding, Oberösterreich, gibt laut Beschluß vom 2. Mai 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 40.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Schardenberg, am 9. Juni 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Matth. Maier. Die Nachmachung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. 10 |
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Schardenberg is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, near the Inn River and the German border. This 10 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues that flooded the country between 1919 and 1922, printed by local authorities to address a severe small-coin shortage after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left the new Republic of Austria chronically short of fractional currency.
The single signature — Matth. Maier — almost certainly belongs to the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal official, signing on behalf of the commune to give the note its local legal standing. Schardenberg's issue is among the more obscure Gemeindenotgeld examples, with limited surviving documentation on print runs or redemption records.