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10 Heller Viehofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Viehofen (Municipality of Viehofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress-printed Notgeld on cream paper, divided into two registers: at left, a detailed landscape vignette framed by tall trees showing a hilltop manor house with surrounding outbuildings and lush foliage; at upper left, the denomination numeral '10' enclosed in an oval cartouche. The right register, bordered by a fine ruled frame, carries the full text of the issue in Gothic script, including the issuer name, denomination in words, redemption terms, and date 'Juni 1920', with three manuscript signatures of municipal officials below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Viehofen bei St. Pölten über Zehn Hellers Die Gemeinde Viehofen löst dieses Notgeld in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Juni 1920. Finanzreferent: [signature] Bürgermeister: Josef Greiner Gemeinderat: [signature] |
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Viehofen is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the municipal Notgeld wave that swept Austria in 1920 as chronic small-coin shortages made everyday transactions genuinely difficult. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own emergency paper at this time, most in very limited quantities for purely local use — which is why village-level Notgeld from this period survives in such uneven numbers across different communities.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1112-10 places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian series, but Viehofen's issues remain among the more obscure entries in that catalog.