10 Heller Brunn am Gebirge

Brunn am Gebirge is a small market town south of Vienna, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it was forced to issue its own emergency small change — Notgeld — because the collapsing postwar monetary system had drained metallic coinage almost entirely from circulation. The 10 Heller denomination sits at the lowest end of the Notgeld range, intended for daily transactions that the national currency simply could not physically support at the time.

Alex Scherbán was among the designers who worked across multiple Austrian municipal issues during this period, contributing to what became an unlikely flowering of local graphic art under fiscal duress.