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10 Heller Zwettl im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Zwettl, Mühlkreis (Municipality of Zwettl im Mühlkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark violet-brown on buff paper stock, with a decorative vine-and-leaf border framing the entire note. A central vignette rendered in fine letterpress line work presents a rural chapel with an onion dome, flanked by a tree and set in an open landscape, enclosed within an arched surround also ornamented with grape motifs. The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold cartouches at lower left and right, with the legend 'ZEHN HELLER' inscribed vertically on each side, and the anti-counterfeiting notice 'NACHAHMUNG WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT' running along the lower margin above the issuer inscription 'GEMEINDE ZWETTL'. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZEHN HELLER GILTIG BIS 1. JÄNNER 1921 GZ. GEMEINDE ZWETTL MÜHLKREIS OBERÖSTERREICH GIBT AUF GRUND DES GEMEINDERATSBESCHLUSSES VOM 25. IV. 1920 GUTSCHEINE BIS ZU EINEM BETRAGE V. 50000 K AUS U. VERPFLICHTET SICH DIESES NOTGELD BIS 1. JANUAR 1921 IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINZULÖSEN. DER GEMEINDERAT DER BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Zwettl im Mühlkreis is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of low-denomination coins from circulation. The postwar coinage shortage was severe enough that even villages with no banking infrastructure were printing their own scrip, accepted only within the issuing community.
The 10 Heller denomination was among the most common Notgeld values across Austria, which makes individual municipal issues easy to overlook. The Zwettl piece is a minor provincial item with no known printing curiosity or error variant on record.