10 Heller Eggenburg

Eggenburg's 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities starved of usable small change. The Pressevereinsdruckerei — the press association's print shop, a distinctly local operation — handled production in-house, which kept the note entirely within the town's own hands from design to distribution.

Eggenburg had a population of only a few thousand at the time. That a town this size ran its own print operation capable of producing circulating currency says something about how thoroughly the old infrastructure had disintegrated by 1920.