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10 Heller Strass
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Straß (Market Town of Straß) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on pale blue-grey paper with a wavy-line underprint, the note is framed by a ruled border with the heading in Gothic (Fraktur) script reading 'Notgeld für die Marktgemeinde Straß' along the upper margin. Large ornate denomination numerals '10 Heller' appear at the left and right flanking a central vignette of a riverside scene with a bridge and billowing smoke, with the municipal coat of arms positioned at lower centre. A two-column text block beneath the vignette records the municipality's liability guarantee, dated 12 May 1920, and bears two manuscript signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on plain white paper with large lightly printed numeral underprints visible in the background, the upper portion carries a four-line verse in Gothic script. The central text block sets out the redemption conditions, specifying that the note will be exchanged for lawful currency by the Gemeinde Straß between 1 and 31 December 1920, with a statutory warning against counterfeiting at the foot. |
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Austrian Notgeld issued by the Marktgemeinde Straß during the economic dislocation that followed the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. Small municipalities across the former Austrian crownlands were forced to produce their own emergency small-change currency between roughly 1919 and 1921, filling a vacuum left by a central banking system that could no longer supply adequate coinage — copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort years earlier.
The JPR1044b designation places this in the Jaksch catalog's regional Styrian series. Straß-in-Steiermark issued at minimum two denomination variants; the "b" suffix indicates a second type within the 10 Heller issue, likely a color or text variant from the same print run.