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10 Heller St. Johann am Wimberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Sankt Johann am Wimberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet on cream paper, the reverse is divided into a typeset upper panel with the denomination numeral 10 at each side flanking two decorative hourglass vignettes and the folk saying Hanfinger Geld / Nimmt alle Welt. Below, a multi-paragraph legal text in Gothic script authorises the issue, concluding with the date St. Johann am Wimberg, am 5. Mai 1920, the Bürgermeister's signature line, and the counterfeiting warning Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Wolkerstorfer |
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Sankt Johann am Wimberg is a small parish municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is exactly the kind of hyperlocal Notgeld that proliferated across Austria in 1920 as small communities ran out of small-denomination coinage. The issuing authority here is the municipality itself — not a savings bank or commercial institution — signed by Josef Wolkerstorfer, almost certainly the Bürgermeister at the time.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places it within the vast Austrian Notgeld corpus, where hundreds of nearly identical administrative structures produced notes of this type within a narrow window before federal coinage supply normalized.