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10 Heller Ungenach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ungenach (Municipality of Ungenach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | L. Haase, Linz |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress vignette on plain paper, centred on a panoramic rural scene of the village of Ungenach with a baroque church tower rising above the treeline and a footbridge in the middle distance. To the left, a couple in traditional Upper Austrian costume (Alte Ob.Öst. Tracht) stand beside a wayside shrine bearing the denomination numeral '10' and the inscription 'Heller'. A scroll banner in the lower centre carries the text 'Gutschein Ungenach', flanked by a pitchfork and agricultural implements to the right; the printer's imprint 'L. Haase. Linz.' appears at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text note on plain paper, the entire field enclosed within a dense lace-pattern guilloche border. The denomination '10 Heller' appears in two circular cartouches at the top centre and bottom centre. Flanking the central text block are two small oval portrait vignettes of women in traditional regional dress. The authorisation text in Fraktur script states that the Gemeinde Ungenach issues vouchers to the value of 60,000 Kronen by resolution of the municipal committee dated 13 and 23 May 1920, valid until 1 Juni 1921, with the municipality's assets pledged as guarantee; below appear the manuscript signatures of the Vicebürgermeister and the Bürgermeister. |
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Ungenach is a village in Upper Austria with a present-day population under a thousand, which makes this note one of the more obscure products of Austria's post-WWI Notgeld wave. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities — down to the smallest rural communes — scrambling to produce their own small-denomination emergency currency as coins vanished from circulation entirely. L. Haase in Linz handled printing for numerous Upper Austrian communities during this period, and their output for Ungenach follows the same functional production approach seen across the series.
The "b" variant designation in the Jaksc/Pick reference typically indicates a color or paper distinction from the "a" issue — worth confirming against both types before cataloging multiples.