10 Heller Gurten

Gurten is a small municipality in the Bernese Oberland, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the acute small-coin shortage that gripped much of central Europe in the aftermath of the First World War. Switzerland, though neutral, was not immune — metal had been hoarded, melted, or exported, and by 1918–1920 municipal and private issuers across the country were printing emergency Kleingeldersatz in denominations too small for any bank to bother with.

The Jaksc reference places this firmly within the documented Swiss notgeld corpus, though Gurten examples surface rarely enough that population data is essentially nonexistent.