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10 Heller Werfen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Land-Werfen (Municipality of Werfen Land) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Land-Werfens löst diesen Gutschein über Heller 10 Heller bis zur Einziehung in a gesetzlichem Bargeld ein Landgemeinde Werfen i. August 1920 Gemeinderat Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed woodcut-style vignette of an alpine industrial landscape, with the Concordia Hütte (smelting works) in the foreground — including factory buildings, a tall chimney and timber structures — set against a dramatic mountain backdrop with a castle or fortification visible on the ridge. A banner at the top reads 'Concordia Hütte' in red and black Fraktur within a dotted border; crossed mining hammers appear in the upper-left corner panel and a gear wheel in the upper-right, while the denomination numeral '10' is repeated in red at the lower-left and lower-right corners within patterned cartouches. |
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Werfen Land is a small rural municipality in the Salzburg valley, and this 10 Heller note is among the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system forced municipalities — including villages with no meaningful banking infrastructure — to print their own emergency small-change notes when coins effectively vanished from circulation.
The Jaksc catalog reference JPR1172-10 places this firmly in the documented Salzburg regional series. Local Notgeld from communities this small typically had extremely short redemption windows and saw almost no circulation beyond the issuing parish.