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10 Heller
| Issuer | Herzogenburg, Market Town of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Herzogenburg 10 Heller Gutschein Herzogenburg - Rathausplatz |
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| Reverse lettering | Buchdruckerei G. m. b. H. Dieser Gutschein wird zur Behebung des Kleingeldmangels im Kundenverkehr ausgegeben und für vorne angegebenen Betrag eingelöst. Herzogenburg, Kremserstr. |
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Herzogenburg's 10 Heller Notgeld belongs to the vast wave of locally printed emergency small change that flooded Austria between 1920 and 1921, when coin shortages made even the lowest denominations functionally useless in daily trade. Market towns across Lower Austria issued their own scrip rather than wait for Vienna to solve the problem.
Printed by a local press rather than any specialist security printer, these notes were never intended to circulate beyond the immediate municipality — legally and practically. The Buchdruckerei G.m.b.H. was a commercial job printer, not a banknote house.