10 Heller Kössen in Tirol

Kössen is a small market village in the Tyrolean district of Kitzbühel, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coins following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 10 Heller denomination was among the most commonly issued values — useful for everyday transactions that larger notes could not cover.

Austrian municipal Notgeld of this period was printed in enormous variety, often locally, with quality ranging from professional lithography to near-amateur presswork. Kössen's issue falls into a category where surviving examples frequently show fold wear from actual circulation rather than collector hoarding.