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10 Heller Waldburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waldburg (Municipality of Waldburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark reddish-brown on cream paper, the obverse centres on the large Gothic-script heading 'Gutschein' above a dotted oval cartouche bearing the bold numeral '10'. Flanking oval vignettes contain local emblems — a horn with agricultural implements at left and a floral bouquet at right — set within ornate foliate scrollwork borders. Below, a four-line redemption clause in Kurrent script affirms the liability of the Gemeinde Waldburg for the period 1 July to 31 December 1920, concluding with the title 'Der Bürgermeister' and a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in the same reddish-brown tone, the reverse carries the issuer's name 'Gemeinde Waldburg' in a flowing banner across the top within dense foliate guilloche borders. The central vignette presents a landscape scene of a stone arched viaduct with a tree in the foreground, identified by a ribbon scroll at the base as the 'Alte Linz – Budweiser Pferdebahn'. Denomination cartouches reading '10 Heller' are set within oval frames at left and right, with the printer's imprint 'L. Haase, Linz' in the lower-right margin. |
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Waldburg is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is one of thousands of Notgeld pieces produced across German-speaking Austria between 1919 and 1922 to address a chronic shortage of small coins following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The municipal authority — not a bank — was the issuing body, which was typical for village-level Notgeld and legally permissible under the emergency conditions of the early First Republic.
L. Haase of Linz was a regional printer responsible for a number of Upper Austrian community issues during this period. The JPR1130 reference places this within the Jaksch-Pick Notgeld catalog for Austria.