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10 Heller Wallsee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wallsee an der Donau (Municipality of Wallsee on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper within a ruled rectangular border with a fine guilloche frame, the reverse carries a central vignette of Wallsee castle set on a wooded hill, rendered in a detailed line-art style. The denomination '10 Heller' appears in bold numerals at left and right flanking the vignette, while the lower portion bears the issuer text in Gothic script above two manuscript facsimile signatures for the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister, their titles printed in Roman type above. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Heller 10 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Wallsee a.D. Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister: |
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Wallsee an der Donau is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg currency system left communities without adequate small change. The printer, J. Kiefer of Amstetten, handled several local emergency issues from the surrounding region — Amstetten was the nearest town of any commercial size, and its printers became de facto suppliers to a dozen nearby communes.
The designer credit to Steffi Reinelt is the genuinely unusual detail here. Named local designers on Austrian Notgeld are relatively uncommon at this level of issue, and Reinelt appears in no wider commercial printing record, suggesting a locally commissioned amateur or teacher rather than a professional graphic artist.