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10 Heller Werfen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Werfen (Market Town of Werfen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark grey-black on plain paper, the reverse carries a finely detailed letterpress vignette of a street scene in Werfen, with a church tower visible above the rooftops and arched architectural elements framing the view. The image is enclosed within a ruled rectangular border with a decorative hatched frame, and a text panel in Gothic script runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Werfen |
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Werfen is a small market town in Salzburg province, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the catastrophic currency shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. With the new Austrian state struggling to establish monetary infrastructure and small coin nearly impossible to source, thousands of municipalities — including the most modest — issued their own Notgeld to keep local commerce moving. Werfen was among the smallest communities to do so.
The JPR1173a series designation groups it within the Jaksch catalog of Austrian local emergency issues, a collecting field defined almost entirely by geographic rarity rather than printing complexity.