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10 Heller Werfen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Werfen (Market Town of Werfen) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green and brown on cream paper, with a central text panel surrounded by a leafy decorative border and a fine crosshatch guilloche underprint. The denomination 'Zehn Heller' is set in bold Gothic blackletter script at the centre, above a redemption clause in smaller type. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, identified below by the titles 'Gemeinderat' and 'Bürgermeister', with a small ornamental vignette at the foot of the panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Werfen Dieser Gutschein über Zehn Heller wird bis 31. December 1920 von der Marktgemeinde Werfen in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst Gemeinderat Bürgermeister |
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Werfen is a small market town in the Pongau district of Salzburg province, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it was forced into the note-issuing business by the catastrophic small-change shortage that gripped the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War. The central authorities simply could not keep low-denomination coinage in circulation — metal was needed elsewhere — leaving local governments to fill the gap with their own Notgeld.
The JPR1173b designation within the Jaksch catalogue suggests this is a second variety within the Werfen 10 Heller series, likely differing from the 'a' type in paper color, overprint, or authorization stamp.