10 Heller Abstetten

Abstetten is a small Lower Austrian village, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the post-WWI period when small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation. The Austrian federal government was unable to supply adequate coin, so communes were permitted — and effectively forced — to paper over the gap themselves. Abstetten's 10 Heller note of 1920 is a product of that pragmatic necessity rather than any civic ambition.

The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0002-10 places it firmly in the documented Lower Austrian municipal series, though survival rates for village-level Austrian Notgeld vary enormously depending on whether local collectors preserved them at the time.