10 Heller Maishofen

Maishofen is a small village in the Salzburg region of Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the Habsburg monetary system in collapse and small change chronically absent from circulation, hundreds of communes — many with no prior experience of currency issuance — printed their own fractional notes to keep local commerce functioning. Maishofen was one of the smallest communities to do so.

The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0572-10 places it firmly in the documented Salzburg provincial series, though surviving examples from villages this size tend to surface rarely.