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10 Heller Upper Austria, orange color
| Issuer | Land Oberösterreich (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 70 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in orange-red on cream paper in a woodcut-style letterpress design. A panoramic vignette of the city of Linz occupies the upper left, rendered with rooftops, towers, and hillside vegetation beneath a clouded sky, with the inscription 'Linz 1921' above. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large ornate lettering within a scrollwork cartouche at the lower left, while the right half carries the issuing authority title and a block of Gothic-script text with facsimile signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-white paper surface with no design, text, or ornamentation. |
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Upper Austria's Heller notgeld issues of 1920–1921 were a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that plagued the Austrian rump state after the dissolution of the Habsburg empire. The central government in Vienna couldn't supply enough small change, so the federal states and municipalities printed their own. This particular color variant — the orange — is the third and final printing of the S119 type, distinguished from the earlier red-brown and blue issues solely by ink.
The color differentiation was functional, not decorative: cashiers needed to sort denominations quickly under poor lighting conditions in busy local markets.