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10 Heller Würnsdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Würnsdorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green notgeld printed in dark brown ink on plain paper. A central vignette presents a rural landscape with a wayside shrine or chapel column and a large tree amid stone walls and terraced fields, rendered in a woodcut-like illustrative style. Ornamental scroll cartouches frame the denomination numeral '10' on the left and right flanks, with the issuer's name 'WÜRNSDORF' in bold block lettering below the vignette and validity and guarantor inscriptions arranged at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER MARKT-GEMEINDE ZEHN HELLER. 10 HELLER WÜRNSDORF. GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZ. 1920. DER BÜRGERM.: DIE MARKTGEM. WÜRNSDORF HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT |
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Würnsdorf is a small market commune in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The 10 Heller denomination is among the most common for this type of local issue, produced cheaply to substitute for hoarded metal currency that simply stopped circulating.
By 1920 the Austrian Notgeld wave was already winding down under pressure from the central authorities, making late issues like this one shorter-lived in circulation than earlier wartime examples.