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10 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Municipality of Mondsee) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on pale green guilloche underprint. The denomination '10 Heller' appears in large figures at upper left, beneath which sits the municipal coat of arms of Mondsee within a ruled frame. To the right, a busy vignette rendered in an Expressionist woodcut style portrays a large crowd scene with multiple figures in period costume. A decorative chain-link border frames the entire note, and the issuer inscription 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' is set in Gothic script below the central vignette. The designer's name 'Reisenbichler' appears in small text at the lower centre. |
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| Signature(s) | Ant. Kaltenbrunner |
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Mondsee's wartime emergency currency came out of necessity — the First World War metal coin shortage hit small Austrian market towns hard, and Marktgemeinden across Upper Austria scrambled to produce their own Kleingeldersatz. This 10 Heller note is part of that Notgeld wave, locally printed and locally signed, with Kaltenbrunner's signature lending whatever municipal authority a small lakeside community could muster.
Reisenbichler's involvement as designer points to genuinely local production rather than the regional printers who handled bulk Notgeld for dozens of towns simultaneously. That's relatively uncommon at this denomination.