10 Heller Eberstallzell

Eberstallzell is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller notgeld was issued in 1920 as part of the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The printer, Brüder R. Kasberger of Agen, was a regional operation — not one of the major Vienna or Graz houses — which gives these notes a distinctly provincial character in both execution and paper quality.

Small-commune notgeld from Upper Austria in this period was often printed in very limited runs, redeemed quickly, and discarded. Surviving examples tend to come from collector sets rather than actual circulation.