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10 Heller Weiten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weiten (Municipality of Weiten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Lehrer Friedrich Grausgruber |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für Weiten Zehn Heller 10 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark green Gothic script on plain cream paper, with no vignette. The upper portion carries a four-line verse in Fraktur typeface. Below, a redemption guarantee declaration states that the undersigned accept liability for redeeming the note in lawful currency and have deposited dedicated cover capital with the municipality. Three facsimile signatures appear beneath, identified by their titles Gastwirt, Gastwirt, and Kaufmann. Further text warns that counterfeiting is punishable by law, states the validity date of 31 December 1920, credits the pen drawing to Lehrer Friedr. Grausgruber, and names the printer at the foot. |
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Weiten is a small village in Lower Austria's Melk district, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld crisis that gripped German-speaking Europe after the First World War — small municipalities printing their own emergency scrip because the state simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage. The designer, Lehrer Friedrich Grausgruber, was almost certainly the local schoolteacher; it was not unusual for village educators to take on such commissions when professional illustrators were neither available nor affordable.
Chwala's Druck on Zieglergasse in Vienna's seventh district handled the printing — a small commercial press, not one of the major security printers of the period.