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10 Heller Wartberg ob der Aist
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wartberg ob der Aist (Municipality of Wartberg ob der Aist) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1142b-10 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Wartberg ob.d.Aist über Zehn Heller Die Gemeinde Wartberg ob.d.Aist hastet mit dem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen, diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dez. 1920. in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. GEMEINDERAT: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: NACHDRUCK VERBOTEN ZEHN HELLER |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Wartberg ob.d.Aist Zehn Heller 10 Wartberg ob der Aist Die Gemeinde Wartberg ob.d.Aist gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrag von 30.000 K aus (L.R.B. 1920) |
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Wartberg ob der Aist is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during and after the First World War to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from everyday commerce. The 10 Heller denomination was the workhorse of local Notgeld, intended for genuine small-change transactions rather than collector speculation, which became a problem for later series.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this in the documented Austrian local issues corpus, but Wartberg's output was modest. Notes from minor Upper Austrian communes in this denomination frequently show heavy circulation wear — they were actually used.