10 Heller Gallneukirchen

Gallneukirchen's 10 Heller notgeld dates from the chaotic monetary contraction that followed Austria's post-war reorganization, when the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional currency simply to make change. The market town — a small community northeast of Linz — issued these notes under the authority of its Bürgermeister, with Johann Stingeder's signature providing the necessary local authentication.

Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was typically printed in short runs and redeemed quickly, which counterintuitively makes low-denomination survivors scarcer than their face value suggests.