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10 Heller St. Johann in Engstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Johann in Engstetten (Municipality of Sankt Johann in Engstetten) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Johann 10 Heller NÖ Entwurf: Emerich Kratz Druck: F. Klein, Amstetten |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde St. Johann in Engstetten. a schwarz Stückel Brot Und a guats Krügl Most Is für unsere Landsleut Do allerliebst Kost. Gutschein über 10 Heller. Die Gemeinde haftet für die Verbindlichkeit der ausgegebenen Scheine bis 30. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft. Josef Tempelmeier, Bürgermeister. Wagner Franz, Gemeinderat. Engelbert Pfaffenbichler, Vicebürgermeister. |
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Sankt Johann in Engstetten is a small parish commune in Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a consequence of the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Hundreds of communes issued their own small-denomination emergency paper, and the 10 Heller piece was among the most common denominations, used to bridge the gap left by vanishing copper and nickel coinage.
F. Klein of Amstetten was a regional printer handling multiple local Notgeld commissions in this part of Lower Austria. Three municipal signatories authenticated the issue — unusual to see all three names survive in catalog records for a note of this modest scale.