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10 Heller Hausmening
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hausmening (Municipality of Hausmening) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Green on pale cream paper. To the left, an oval vignette contains a right-facing portrait bust of a woman in period dress with an ornate headdress, rendered in fine line engraving. To the right, a second oval panel carries the Notgeld legend and issuer inscription in Gothic script, with a validity clause. Three facsimile signatures appear in the centre field below the denomination heading, with role designations for the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. The denomination 'ZEHN 10 HELLER' is set in large Gothic lettering across the top, flanked by decorative foliate corner ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Green on pale cream paper. The central composition is dominated by a large oval cartouche containing the municipal coat of arms of Hausmening, surrounded by the legend 'Mit Gunst von wegens handwerk' in a circular band. Flanking the central oval are two circular panels at left and right, each enclosing the numeral '10' above 'HELLER' within a ruled frame. The issuer name 'HAUSMENING' appears in large Gothic lettering across the upper portion of the central field, and a two-part guarantee text is set in the lower register. |
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Hausmening is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities from 1920 onward as postwar inflation rendered small metal coins effectively worthless and impossible to source. Thousands of communities printed their own emergency currency, but the quality of local output varied wildly. Having two named designers — Schönbrunner for the obverse, Krejal for the reverse — on a village-issue piece printed by a provincial Amstetten firm is a modest but genuine distinction in this category.