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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wolfern (Municipality of Wolfern, Upper Austria) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a faint blue oval underprint at centre. Red letterpress text in five lines states the redemption clause, followed by the mayoral designation 'Bürgermeister :' and the surname 'EDLMAYR' in bold capitals. |
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| Signature(s) | Bürgermeister Edlmayr |
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Wolfern is a small farming parish in the Steyr-Land district, and this Heller note is a product of the acute coin shortage that paralyzed small transactions across Austria from 1914 onward. Municipal governments — Gemeinden with no banking infrastructure and no authority to strike metal — were nonetheless permitted to issue these Notgeld scrips to keep local commerce functional. Wolfern's issue is among the more modest in scale, signed by Bürgermeister Edlmayr without a countersignature, which suggests a very limited authorizing committee.
At 40 x 28 mm, this is noticeably smaller than most Austrian municipal Heller issues of the period — closer to a postage stamp than a banknote.