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10 Heller Waidhofen an der Ybbs
| Issuer | Stadt Waidhofen an der Ybbs (City of Waidhofen an der Ybbs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned note with a decorative scrollwork border framing a central vignette of the Stadtpfarrkirche (parish church) of Waidhofen an der Ybbs, rendered in a detailed woodcut-style illustration with trees and a garden fence in the foreground. The city coat of arms appears in the upper right corner. The denomination numeral '10' is printed to the right of the vignette, with the issuing authority inscription and a liability clause below, followed by two manuscript signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | ZEHN HELLER NOTGELD DER STADT WAIDHOFEN A. YBBS welche hierfür mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen haftet Der Bgmstr.: Der Bürgermeister: Der Stadtrat |
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Waidhofen an der Ybbs was among hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced to print their own small-denomination emergency money — Notgeld — after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left a severe shortage of coin. This 10 Heller piece is notable for being printed locally by the town's own lithographic firm rather than contracted out to the larger Viennese trade printers that supplied most of Lower Austria's Notgeld.
The involvement of a named architect and an academic painter in the design program suggests the town took the series seriously as a civic project, not merely an administrative stopgap.