10 Heller Asperhofen

Asperhofen is a small Lower Austrian village that, like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, was forced into issuing its own emergency currency during the First World War when small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. The imperial government's failure to supply adequate coinage created a patchwork of local Notgeld that varied wildly in production quality — a village printing house like C. Quelser in Amstetten represents exactly the kind of regional jobbing printer pressed into producing what were essentially unofficial instruments of local commerce.

The JPR0058a designation places this within the Jaksch cataloguing of Austrian municipal issues, a collecting field where the designer credit — here A. Rohrhofer — is unusually specific for a note at this denomination level.