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10 Heller Hirschbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hirschbach (Municipality of Hirschbach) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Jede Nachahmung wird bestraft. Gutschein über HELLER 10 HELLER DIE GEMEINDE HIRSCHBACH haftet für dieses Notgeld und löst selbes nur vom 15. bis 31. Dezemb. 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde ein Anton Gusner M. Freudenthaler L. Eidenberger Bürgm.-Stellv. Bürgermeister. Gemd.-Aussch. Druck: Stampfl & Comp., Braunau. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Heller 10 Heller |
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Hirschbach is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian and German communities during the First World War when small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight. Stampfl & Comp. in Braunau am Inn — the same town where Adolf Hitler was born, though that connection carries no relevance here — handled printing for numerous local Notgeld issues across the region, making them a minor but reliable provincial press of the period.
Three signatories authenticated this note: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a council member. That level of local bureaucratic formality on a 10 Heller emergency piece speaks to how seriously even tiny municipalities treated the legal standing of their improvised currency.