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10 Heller Vöcklabruck
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Vöcklabruck |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green with a bold ornamental border incorporating the denomination numeral '10' in each corner. A large central oval vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of Vöcklabruck with the Alpine foothills in the background, signed 'C. MANN' at lower right of the vignette; the artist credit 'C. PRITZEL STEYR' appears at lower right margin. Two cartouche text panels frame the vignette above and below, carrying the legal authorisation text and redemption conditions in Gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Stadtgemeinde Vöcklabruck gibt auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 29. Nov. 1919 Gutscheine aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit zur Einlösung derselben mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Das Ende der Gültigkeitsdauer wird öffentlich verlautbart werden. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. 10 |
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Vöcklabruck's 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast Austrian Notgeld wave that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left municipal treasuries scrambling to cover small-change shortages. The central government was in no position to supply adequate coin, so hundreds of towns printed their own. Vöcklabruck was one of the smaller Upper Austrian market towns to do so — practical necessity, not civic ambition, drove the issue.
The designer credit to F. Hahn is one of the few locally attributable details that survive for this series. Printing in-town rather than through one of the larger Vienna or Graz commercial houses was common for the lower Heller denominations, keeping costs down at the expense of engraving quality.