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10 Heller St. Valentin
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung St. Valentin (Municipality of Sankt Valentin) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on a cream guilloche-patterned ground with numerals '10' in the upper corners and along the side margins. The heading 'Gemeinde-Vorstehung St. Valentin.' is set in Gothic script above the large central word 'Gutschein', followed by the denomination 'über zehn Heller 10 über zehn Heller'. A central text block in Gothic script confirms redemption in legal currency during the period 1–31 December 1920. At the foot, three manuscript signature lines are present for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinde-Kassier. Validity and anti-counterfeiting notices appear in the side margins. |
| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde-Vorstehung St. Valentin. Gutschein über zehn Heller 10 über zehn Heller Die Gemeinde St. Valentin löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1-31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzl. Bargeld ein. Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister: Gemeinde-Kassier: Gültig bis 31.Dezember 1920 Nachahmung wird bestraft |
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Sankt Valentin is a small industrial town in Lower Austria, best known as a railway junction on the main Vienna–Linz line. This 10 Heller piece is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change scrip printed by the municipality itself to address the catastrophic coin shortage that persisted across Austria well into the early 1920s, long after the armistice. The central government was in no position to mint adequate fractional currency, so hundreds of towns filled the gap with their own paper.
The Jaksc catalogue reference places this within the vast corpus of Austrian local Notgeld, most of which was printed in runs too small to survive in quantity. St. Valentin issues are not among the better-documented series.