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10 Heller Upper Austria; blue color
| Issuer | Land Oberösterreich (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Single-colour dark blue letterpress print on buff card stock. Left half carries a panoramic vignette of Linz with townscape, castle and hills, dated 'Linz 1504' above; the numeral '10' in ornate scrollwork appears at lower left. Right half bears the issuing authority title in Gothic script and a redemption text, dated Linz 1921, with three facsimile manuscript signatures below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Landes Oberösterreich Linz 1504 Linz 1921 |
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Upper Austria's 1921 Heller notgeld belongs to the tail end of Austria's municipal and provincial emergency currency experiment — by this point the federal government had repeatedly failed to stabilize the krone, leaving regional authorities still printing their own small-denomination notes well into the early 1920s. The Land Oberösterreich issues from Linz are among the more administratively straightforward of the notgeld series, produced locally rather than farmed out to the Viennese or German specialist printers that handled much of the fancier collector-targeted notgeld flooding the market at the same time.
The blue 10 Heller is a purely functional piece — no elaborate pictorial series, no deliberate appeal to the notgeld collectors who were already distorting production decisions elsewhere in the German-speaking world by 1921.