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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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| Designer(s) | Emerich Kratz |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse is headed by a wide decorative banner inscribed 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Johann', with the denomination numeral '10' set within an oval guilloche medallion at centre. A detailed letterpress vignette below presents a panoramic view of the village of St. Johann in Engstetten, with rural buildings, a church tower, and trees rendered in fine line work. The lower margin carries the designer's credit 'Entwurf: Emerich Kratz' at left and the printer's imprint 'Druck: F. Klein, Amstetten' at right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown-black on cream paper and typeset throughout in Gothic blackletter script, the reverse bears the heading 'Gemeinde St. Johann in Engstetten.' across the top, with a four-line vernacular verse in the upper left and the denomination 'Gutschein über 10 Heller.' stated in large type at the right. A central legal text declares the municipality's liability for the issued notes until 30 December 1920 and warns against counterfeiting, with three facsimile signatures of municipal officials printed in the lower portion. |
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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.