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10 Heller Wallern
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wallern (Municipality of Wallern) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Wallern. Die Gemeinde Wallern haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein bis zum 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzl. Bargelde einzulösen. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: J. Brandstätter. Priezel, Stehr. |
| Signature(s) | J. Brandstätter |
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Wallern — now Volary, in the Czech Republic — was a predominantly German-speaking Bohemian town that found itself suddenly inside Czechoslovakia after 1918, against the explicit wishes of most of its residents. This 10 Heller note is Notgeld, emergency small change issued because the new state's coinage supply had not reached outlying communities. The printer Priezel & Stehr was a local firm, and the production shows it — these were functional stopgaps, not prestige pieces.
Signatory J. Brandstätter served as a municipal official during an administratively chaotic transition period when the town's legal status, currency, and governing authority were all simultaneously unsettled.