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10 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Town of Mondsee) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper with a decorative chain-link border, the obverse carries the denomination '10 Heller' in bold numerals at upper left, below which appears the municipal coat of arms of Mondsee. To the right, a lively crowd scene vignette rendered in a graphic woodcut style fills the main field, with the inscription 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' along the lower margin. The designer's name 'Reisenbichler' appears below the central border at bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Heller Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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Mondsee is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria following the First World War. These locally printed fractional notes filled a gap the central authorities simply could not address fast enough. The 10 Heller denomination was the workhorse of everyday small transactions: bread, postage, tram fares.
The designer credit to Reisenbichler and the signature of Ant. Kaltenbrunner are about as local as it gets — this was a municipal clerk's project, not a commercial printer's commission.