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10 Heller Imbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Imbach (Municipality of Imbach) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The left panel carries a line-engraved vignette of the Imbach church complex, rendered in violet ink on plain paper stock, with a tall Gothic spire rising above a low nave and surrounding foliage against a clouded sky. The right panel bears the issuer's title in blackletter script reading 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Imbach im Kremstal', separated from the denomination panel below by a double rule. The denomination '10 Heller 10' is set in large bold type at the foot of the right panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely typeset in violet blackletter script on plain paper and opens with a four-line verse attributed to Ernst Otto Karl. Below, the full legal text identifies the note as a 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Imbach im Kremstal über 10 Heller', states that the vouchers bear no interest, and pledges the municipality's entire movable and immovable assets as guarantee for acceptance in payment until 30 November 1920 and redemption at the municipal treasury between 15 and 30 November 1920. A counterfeiting warning and three manuscript signatures of the Vize-Bürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat appear at the foot. |
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Imbach is a village in Lower Austria so small it barely registers as a settlement — which makes its appearance as a currency issuer during the Heller notgeld period all the more striking. These municipal emergency notes emerged from the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria during and immediately after the First World War, forcing even the smallest administrative units to print their own low-denomination scrip.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the Austrian notgeld series documented by Heinz Jaksch. Survival rates for village-level Heller notes vary enormously — some communes printed so few that any example is genuinely rare, while others over-issued and flooded collector markets in the 1920s.