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10 Heller Zeiselmauer
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Zeiselmauer |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on cream paper with a decorative serrated border running the full perimeter. At upper left, a guilloché octagonal vignette contains the numeral '10' in bold, flanked by a stylized starburst motif; below it, the word 'Heller' is set in Gothic script within a sprig ornament. To the right, the issuing authority inscription and a five-line guarantee text state that the commune of Zeiselmauer pledges its entire movable and immovable assets for this obligation. At the lower right, three manuscript signatures appear beneath the printed titles 'Der Bürgermeister:', 'Vizebürgermeister:', and 'Kassier:'; an oval 'Auflage' control stamp is struck at the bottom centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Ortsgemeinde Zeiselmauer / Die Gemeinde Zeiselmauer haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. / Der Bürgermeister: / Vizebürgermeister: / Kassier: |
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Zeiselmauer is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities, it issued Notgeld in the early 1920s to address the acute small-change shortage that followed Austria's postwar economic collapse. The Heller had been the lowest subdivision of the Krone, and by 1920 coins of this denomination had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply worth too little to bother minting.
Parish and municipal Notgeld from this period was typically printed in short runs by local or regional printers, often on whatever paper stock was available, and redemption periods were strictly limited. Many were never redeemed at all, which is why collector survival rates tend to be higher than actual circulation figures would suggest.