Catalog
10 Heller St. Johann am Walde
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Johann am Walde (Municipality of St. Johann am Walde) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in pale teal-green on cream paper, the reverse is enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. The left panel displays the bold numeral '10' in the upper and lower corners, bisected by a large diagonal flourish stroke. The right panel carries the guarantee text in German, the validity date of 21 January 1921, the Bürgermeister's surname 'SIX', and an anti-counterfeiting warning, along with a serial number rendered as '0000'. |
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| Signature(s) | Bürgermeister Six |
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St. Johann am Walde is a village in Upper Austria that, like hundreds of similarly small municipalities, issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. This 10 Heller piece is among the more collectible of that genre, not for its denomination but for its printer: Klemens Brosch of Urfahr was a regional press of modest output, and notes bearing his imprint are less common in the secondary market than those produced by the major Vienna houses that churned out Notgeld by the millions.
Signed by Bürgermeister Six, whose given name the records do not preserve with any consistency.