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10 Heller Grödig - Eisenwerk
| Issuer | Eisenwerk Grödig |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey paper note with a decorative guilloche border running along the top and bottom edges. The central field carries the inscription 'Wertmarke' at the top, followed by the large denomination numeral '10 h' in bold letterpress, with 'Eisenwerk / Grödig' printed below in two lines. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain grey paper reverse, entirely blank save for a handwritten notation in the upper right corner, typical of these austere wartime local emergency issues. |
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Eisenwerk Grödig was an ironworks operation in the village of Grödig, just south of Salzburg, and like hundreds of Austrian industrial employers during the First World War, it issued its own small-denomination emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the acute shortage of coin in circulation after 1914. The imperial government had effectively hoarded metal coinage, leaving workers with no practical way to make small transactions.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly within the Austrian industrial Notgeld corpus. These notes were redeemable only at the issuing works, which made them instruments of economic captivity as much as convenience.