Catalog
10 Heller Wernstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wernstein am Inn (Municipality of Wernstein am Inn) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper with a serrated border. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold type at upper left and upper right, flanked by ornate Art Nouveau geometric and scroll vignettes. The central text panel, set within a circular underprint, carries the redemption guarantee text in German script, followed by three manuscript signatures above the legend 'DIE GEMEINDE-VERTRETUNG:'. The bold inscription 'ZEHN HELLER' runs across the upper portion, with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZL. BESTRAFT' along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN a/INN ZEHN HELLER Die Gemeinde Wernstein/Inn haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld bis einschließlich 31. Dezember 1920 beim Gemeindeamte einzulösen DIE GEMEINDE-VERTRETUNG: DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZL. BESTRAFT JOS FEICHTINGERS ERBEN, LINZ |
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Wernstein am Inn is a village of a few hundred people on the Austrian bank of the Inn River, directly across from Bavaria. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the acute coin shortage of 1920–1921, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to keep local commerce from seizing up entirely. The federal government had effectively abandoned small denomination coinage, leaving towns to fend for themselves.
Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a Linz printing house that produced municipal Notgeld for numerous Upper Austrian communities during this period. The JPR1174a designation places this within the Jaksch-Pick regional cataloguing system for Austrian local issues.