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10 Heller Wien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Wien (City of Vienna) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red-pink on a fine letterpress underprint composed of repeating 'STADT WIEN' text and ornamental crosses arranged in a tiled pattern across the entire field. A central oval guilloche vignette frames a detailed view of the Vienna City Hall (Rathaus). The denomination '10 Heller' is set in large Gothic blackletter type flanking the vignette, with the issuing authority title 'Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Wien' at the top and a liability clause below the vignette, followed by the date 'Wien, am 19. Februar 1920' and three manuscript signatures for the Vice Mayor, Mayor, and City Council, with the printer's imprint 'H. ENGEL & SOHN, WIEN' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Wien über 10 Heller. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Wien weitere Kassenscheine zu 10 Heller aus. Diese sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Wien bis 30. Juni 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 30. Juni 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Kassenscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Vienna's municipal notgeld program was one of the most extensive in the German-speaking world — a direct consequence of the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. The Stadtgemeinde Wien issued these Heller notes through 1920 as the newly reduced Austrian republic was still establishing its monetary footing following the collapse of the Habsburg currency system.
H. Engel & Sohn was a local Viennese printer, not one of the major security printing houses, which shows in the relatively modest production values typical of the municipal notgeld series. The JPR1183e suffix indicates a specific variety within what was a sizeable and catalogued run of denomination variants.