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10 Heller Ulmerfeld
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Ulmerfeld (Market Town of Ulmerfeld) |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress Gutschein (voucher) note. The centre is occupied by the circular municipal seal of Ulmerfeld bearing a crowned bust in profile with the legend ULLMARPFELDEN SIGLOP RIDI and the date 1607, flanked by vertical ruled panels. To the left, a text block in German states the redemption terms valid to 30 September 1920 at the Gemeindeamt Ulmerfeld, below which appears the signature of the Vice-Bürgermeister. To the right, a further text panel reads Bargeld eingelöst! with the manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and Gemeinderat. The denomination ZEHN 10 HELLER. appears in bold white letters within a solid dark band along the lower margin, while GUTSCHEIN and MARKTGEMEINDE - ULMERFELD are set in heavy Gothic lettering across the top. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark navy blue, the reverse is dominated by a large central oval vignette enclosing a detailed landscape view of Ulmerfeld, with a church steeple rising to the left and a fortified castle complex stretching to the right amid dense foliage and rolling terrain. The denomination numeral 10 appears in bold block figures in the upper left and upper right corners within the enclosing border. Below the vignette, the words ZEHN and HELLER are set in block lettering at left and right respectively, and the issuer inscription MARKTGEMEINDE-ULMERFELD runs across the bottom panel within a ruled frame. |
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Ulmerfeld is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria between roughly 1916 and 1921. These hyperlocal issues were printed in tiny runs, often on whatever paper stock was available, and distributed purely to cover small transactions when metal coinage had vanished from everyday commerce. The Marktgemeinde had no banking infrastructure behind these notes; redemption depended entirely on the town's good faith.
The Jaksc reference places this firmly within the Austrian municipal Notgeld corpus. Low-denomination heller issues from villages of this size are frequently found with uneven ink strike.