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10 Heller Wieselburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wieselburg an der Erlauf |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is bisected vertically by a dotted-rule border into two distinct panels. The left panel carries a letterpress vignette in dark brown of a female allegorical figure standing on a rocky outcrop with arms raised, rendered in an Art Nouveau idiom beneath the inscription KINO, with the place name Wieselburg a/d. Erlauf in flowing script and a decorative monogram below. The right panel presents the denomination text GUTSCHEIN / 10 HELLER in bold display type, accompanied by the validity clause GILTIG BIS 1. JÄNNER 1921. and the initials R. H. flanked by scroll ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | KINO Wieselburg a/d. Erlauf GUTSCHEIN 10 HELLER GILTIG BIS 1. JÄNNER 1921. R. H. |
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Wieselburg an der Erlauf issued this 10 Heller Notgeld under the municipal emergency currency provisions that swept through Austria during and immediately after the First World War. With the imperial monetary system buckling and small coin essentially vanishing from everyday trade — hoarded, melted, or simply unproducible in sufficient quantities — market towns like Wieselburg were authorized to print their own fractional notes to keep local commerce moving.
These small municipal issues were typically produced in very limited runs and redeemed quickly, which paradoxically makes surviving examples more collectible than their humble origins suggest.