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10 Heller St. Leonhard bei Freistadt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Leonhard bei Freistadt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für 10 Heller. Die Gemeinde St. Leonhard bei Freistadt gibt Notgeld im Gesamtbetrage von 50.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Einlösung bis 31 Dezember 1920 mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Gütern. St. Leonhard, im Mai 1920 Der Bürgermeister. 1. Bürgermeister-Stellv. 2. Bürgermeister-Stellv. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft |
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| Reverse lettering | St. Leonhard Hl. Leonhard Bründt 10 |
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Sankt Leonhard bei Freistadt is a small Upper Austrian market commune, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept rural Austria between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal authorities scrambling to cover small-denomination shortages — not because the crown itself had disappeared, but because hoarding and metal scarcity had effectively killed fractional coinage circulation. Thousands of communes issued their own emergency paper, most of it printed by small regional firms.
Buchel of Steyr handled the printing — a workaday regional printer, not one of the Vienna houses responsible for the more elaborate collector-oriented Notgeld of the same period.