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10 Heller Wolfern
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wolfern (Municipality of Wolfern) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on plain paper with an ornate Art Nouveau border composed of interlaced scrollwork and rosette corner ornaments. The issuer's name appears within a bold oval cartouche at the top centre reading "WOLFERN", surmounted by the legend "Gutschein der Gemeinde" and the regional designation "Ober= Österr." below. The denomination "Zehn 10 Heller" is set in a central band in Gothic blackletter script, beneath which a three-line guarantee text affirms municipal liability, followed by the signature line "Der Bürgermeister" with a manuscript signature; the printer's imprint "Emil Priebel, Steyr" appears at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a finely executed line-art vignette of a local castle or manor complex, rendered in a linear illustrative style consistent with Austrian Notgeld artistic conventions, framed within an Art Nouveau cartouche with decorative scrollwork corner pieces. The denomination "10 Heller" appears in the upper left and upper right corners. A vertical anti-counterfeiting warning runs along the left margin, a validity date inscription "Gültig bis 31. Oktober 1920" runs along the right margin, and the issuer legend "Gutschein der Gemeinde Wolfern" is set in Gothic script across the lower border. |
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Wolfern is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is one of thousands of Notgeld issues produced across Austria between 1919 and 1922 to address a genuine shortage of small-denomination coinage in the aftermath of the First World War and the dissolution of the Habsburg monetary system. Emil Priebel was a Steyr-based printer who handled several local emergency issues from municipalities in the surrounding Enns valley region — a practical choice given the transport difficulties and economic dislocation of the period.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1248-10 places this squarely within the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, though Wolfern issues are not among the more frequently encountered survivors.