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10 Heller Streitwiesen
| Issuer | Municipality of Streitwiesen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark ink on plain paper within a decorative letterpress border of scrollwork and ornamental devices. A central vignette occupies the upper portion, presenting a landscape view of ruined castle walls and towers set against a rolling hillside, rendered in a fine woodcut or line-engraving style. The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold circular cartouches at lower left and right, each inscribed 'HELLER', while the issuer name 'STREITWIESEN' is set in large capitals across the top; the lower portion carries the redemption text and four manuscript-style signatory lines identifying local officials. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Weiss (Förster), Alois Gruber (Gastwirt), Ing. Albert Eitel (Forstverwalter) and Franz Paid (Wirtschaftsbesitzer) |
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Streitwiesen is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly tiny communities during the early 1920s, it issued its own notgeld to address the catastrophic small-change shortage that followed Austria's postwar economic collapse. What distinguishes this particular note is the signing authority: the four signatories are not municipal officials in any conventional sense — a forester, an innkeeper, a forestry administrator, and a property owner pressed into service as guarantors of local scrip. That arrangement was legally improvised and tells you something about how thin civil administration was at the village level in 1920.
The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR1049a confirms this as part of the catalogued Austrian Kleingeldscheine series. At 66 × 59 mm, the note is roughly square — an unusual proportion for the type.