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10 Heller Wernstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wernstein am Inn (Municipality of Wernstein) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and black Notgeld voucher with a decorative Art Nouveau border of geometric and scrollwork motifs. Large numeral '10' appears at upper left and upper right flanking the central text panel, which carries the redemption clause in German Gothic script and three manuscript signatures above the line 'DIE GEMEINDE-VERTRETUNG:'. The denomination 'ZEHN HELLER' is set in bold display letters across the upper portion, with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZL. BESTRAFT' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 HELLER JOHANNES FELSEN IM INN ZEHN HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN a/INN |
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Wernstein am Inn is a small Upper Austrian municipality on the German border, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria during the First World War. The central government's withdrawal of metal coinage for war production left thousands of municipalities scrambling to print their own fractional emergency money — Notgeld — to keep local commerce moving at all. Feichtingers Erben was a Linz printing house that filled a significant share of that demand across Upper Austria.
The "b" suffix in the Jaksch reference indicates a variant within the series, likely a color or paper distinction from the "a" issue.