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10 Heller Vorchdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vorchdorf (Municipality of Vorchdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1119a-10 |
| Obverse description | Green letterpress note on plain paper with a fine horizontal-line guilloche underprint. The large blackletter title 'GUTSCHEIN' runs across the upper field, flanked on the left by a hand-drawn edelweiss sprig vignette; the denomination '10 HELLER 10' is set within a central circular guilloche rosette beneath the word 'über'. The issuing authority, redemption deadline, and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appear in the lower portion, with the printer's imprint 'SALZKAMMERGUT-DRUCKEREI GMUNDEN' along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a single, finely executed line-engraved vignette occupying nearly the full note field, depicting a panoramic view of Vorchdorf with a prominent onion-domed church tower in the left foreground, a cluster of village buildings in the middle ground, and a dramatic alpine massif rising against a clouded sky in the background; the scene is framed by a plain rectangular border. |
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Vorchdorf's 10 Heller Notgeld was one of thousands of small-denomination emergency issues flooding Upper Austria in the early 1920s, produced because the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities without enough coin to make change. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden handled a substantial volume of these local commissions across the lake district, making them the de facto regional printer for Notgeld of this type.
The JPR1119a designation groups Vorchdorf's issues as part of a documented series, suggesting at minimum one variant exists alongside this 10 Heller.