10 Heller Eggenburg

Eggenburg's 1920 notgeld series was a local response to the catastrophic coin shortage that paralyzed small commerce across Austria in the early postwar years — the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to fill gaps that Vienna was in no position to address quickly. The Pressevereinsdruckerei, a local press rather than a specialist banknote printer, handled the job entirely in-house, which accounts for the modest production values typical of town-level Austrian notgeld.

Eggenburg issued several denominations in this period. The 10 Heller note, as the smallest unit in the series, would have done the heaviest circulation work — and found the least reason to be preserved.