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10 Heller Unterach am Attersee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Unterach am Attersee (Municipality of Unterach am Attersee, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Unterach am Attersee 10 Heller Nur giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920 Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. PAUL GERIN WIEN, II. |
| Reverse description | Brown-toned reverse with a fine lace-pattern guilloche underprint. Upper register contains three panels: denomination numeral '10' at left and right flanking the central text panel. A guarantee clause in Fraktur script occupies the middle field, with a large watermark-style '10' numeral visible through the underprint. The mayor's manuscript signature appears below the printed title 'Der Bürgermeister:'. |
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Unterach am Attersee is a small lakeside resort village in the Salzkammergut, and this 10 Heller Notgeld was one of hundreds of municipal emergency issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that left small-denomination metal currency almost entirely absent from circulation. Paul Gerin's Vienna workshop handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions, producing runs that were often as much a local fundraising and tourism souvenir exercise as a genuine transactional necessity.
The Heller itself was already a dying unit — Austria abolished it in 1924 when the Krone collapsed and the Schilling system replaced it entirely.