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10 Heller St. Marien
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Marien (Municipality of St. Marien) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet on white paper and carries a plain ruled border with dot-and-circle ornamental panels at each upper corner enclosing the numeral '10'. A central heading in Gothic script reads 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Marien', followed by a multi-line legal text in German declaring the issue of vouchers totalling 50,000 Kronen by resolution of 21 April 1920, redeemable at the municipal treasury until 1 May 1921. The place and date 'St. Marien, am 13. Juni 1920' appear below the text block, followed by the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature. A counterfeiting warning runs along the bottom edge, and a small printer's mark appears at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Gutschein 10 der Gemeinde St. Marien. Die Gemeinde St. Marien, Bez. Linz, gibt laut Beschluß vom 21. April 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 50.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 1. Mai 1921 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. St. Marien, am 13. Juni 1920. Der Bürgermeister: :: Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. :: |
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St. Marien is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and its 1920 Heller notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The central government could not supply adequate small-denomination coinage, so thousands of communes — including ones barely large enough to warrant a post office — printed their own. Most were redeemed within months and deliberately destroyed, making surviving examples disproportionately scarce relative to original print runs.
The JPR0907b-10.2 reference places this within the Jaksch corpus of Austrian notgeld, distinguishing it as a second type variant within the St. Marien issue.