10 Heller St. Agatha

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Descrizione del rovescio	The reverse is printed in dark violet on a wavy-line guilloche underprint and centres on a large oval vignette of the St. Agatha townscape, with multi-storey buildings and a church tower visible against a mountain backdrop; the caption 'ST. AGATHA.' appears on a ribbon at the foot of the oval. Denomination numerals '10' are set within circular cartouches flanking the vignette at left and right.
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Firma/e	Altenhofer
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Commenti	Sankt Agatha bei Wels is a small Upper Austrian commune, and this 10 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1920 and 1922 as small coin — badly needed for everyday transactions — essentially vanished from circulation. The imperial coinage had collapsed with the Habsburg state, and municipalities scrambled to fill the gap themselves. Gemeinde-level issuers like Sankt Agatha produced these in tiny print runs, often on whatever paper stock was locally available. The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the well-documented Austrian municipal series. Single-signatory issues bearing only a local official — here, Altenhofer — are typical of the smaller communes, where no bank countersignature was practical.