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| Issuer | Gemeinde Kallham (Municipality of Kallham) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in green and black on white paper, with a decorative leaf-pattern guilloche border framing the entire face. A central vignette presents a letterpress rendering of a local civic building, flanked on either side by the large numeral '10' within plain oval reserves. The issuing authority legend appears at the top in stylized hand-drawn lettering, with a redemption notice and the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature printed in the lower panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain white paper within a decorative scalloped and diamond-point border. The text is set entirely in letterpress typography, presenting the formal conditions of issue in multiple paragraphs of German text, with the title line in larger type. The lower paragraph contains an anti-counterfeiting warning notice. |
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Kallham is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These small-denomination Heller notes were a local emergency — not sanctioned by any central banking authority, but tolerated as a practical necessity when metal coinage simply stopped circulating.
The JPR prefix in Jaksch's Austrian Notgeld catalog places this firmly in the provincial series. The 10 Heller value is among the lowest denominations issued, which typically means heavier circulation wear and higher attrition from everyday use as small change.