10 Heller Gilgenberg

Gilgenberg am Weilhart is a small parish in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency — the municipal small-change crisis that swept Austria and Germany from around 1916 onward as metal coinage vanished from circulation. Thousands of communities issued their own paper Heller notes, but most relied on larger regional printers. Josef Stampfl & Comp., operating under the Höglinger imprint in nearby Braunau am Inn, served a cluster of Upper Austrian municipalities during this period.

The single signature, J. Hartl, almost certainly represents a local municipal official rather than a bank officer — Gemeindenotgeld of this type was authorized at the community level, not through any banking institution.