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10 Heller Wernstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wernstein am Inn (Municipality of Wernstein am Inn) |
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| Printer | Jos. Feichtingers Erben, Linz |
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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 |
| Reverse 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, with the word 'HELLER' beneath each. The central vignette, enclosed within a circular frame, presents a detailed landscape view of the Johannesfelsen (Johannes Rock) in the River Inn, rendered in fine line engraving with trees and rocky outcrops. Ornate Art Nouveau floral and geometric decorative panels fill the lateral margins, and the arc inscription 'ZEHN HELLER' curves below the central vignette. |
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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.