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10 Heller Upper Austria, red 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 red by letterpress on plain paper, the obverse carries a woodcut-style vignette of a hilltop town with a castle or fortified structure at upper left. A large ornate numeral '10' within a scrollwork cartouche occupies the lower left, while Gothic-script text to the right identifies the issuing authority along with facsimile official signatures and the date Linz 1921. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Landes Oberösterreich / Linz 1921 |
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Upper Austria's 1921 Heller notgeld came out of a municipal and provincial emergency currency movement that flooded German-speaking Austria and Germany in the early 1920s as chronic coin shortages made ordinary commerce difficult. The federal government could not keep pace with demand for small change, so provincial and local administrations printed their own. Land Oberösterreich issued this series through facilities in Linz rather than contracting a specialist printing house, which accounts for the relatively plain execution compared to the elaborately decorative notgeld being produced elsewhere in the region at the same time.
The red color variant is catalogued separately from the blue — P#S119b — suggesting a deliberate print run distinction, possibly tied to a second issue date or a reprint to address ongoing shortage.