10 Heller Leiben

Leiben is a small market town in Lower Austria's Wachau-adjacent Weitental, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the postwar collapse of the Austrian crown — small emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. The Beyer design credit is typical of the cottage-industry approach to Austrian Notgeld: local artists, schoolteachers, and commercial illustrators produced artwork that was then printed in small regional runs.

The print date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a cataloger's error or a data entry artifact — that date is the final day of the Battle of Berlin, years after Austrian municipal Notgeld had ceased to have any meaning. The actual issue period for this series would be 1920.