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10 Heller Unter-Weißenbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Unterweißenbach (Municipality of Unterweißenbach) |
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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 red and blue on plain paper within a red rectangular border. Large numeral '10' denominators appear at left and right, with the value inscription 'Zehn Heller' in Gothic script flanking a central vignette of a church tower amid a rural landscape, surmounted by the text 'Gutschein'. Below the vignette, a brief redemption clause is printed in small Gothic lettering, and three handwritten signatures appear above the issuer name 'Unter-Weißenbach Ob. Oest.' rendered in bold Gothic blackletter. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn Heller Gutschein Zehn Heller über über Gemeinde-Vorstenung UNTERWEISSENBACH Oberösterreich 10 10 Die Gemeinde Unterweißenbach in Ob. Oest. gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschußbeschlusses vom 12.V. 1920 Gutscheine im Betrage von 40.000 Kr. aus und haftet für die richtige Einlösung dieser Scheine in gesetzlichem Bargelde mit einer eigenen Deckungsrücklage. Unterweißenbach, im Mai 1920 Nachahmung wird gestz. bestraft. |
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Unterweißenbach is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the First World War. The 10 Heller denomination was the workhorse of local commerce at this level, needed for everyday transactions that federal coinage simply couldn't cover.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1101-10 places this within the broader Austrian Notgeld cataloguing system. Collectors should note that municipal Notgeld from Upper Austria at this denomination was printed in comparatively small quantities and often saw genuine circulation rather than being issued speculatively for philatelic trade, as many of the more elaborate 1920–1921 series were.