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10 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Municipality of Mondsee) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple-brown on a pale green guilloche underprint, the obverse is framed by a decorative chain border. The denomination '10 Heller' is set in bold letterpress at upper left, beneath which appears the coat of arms of Mondsee. To the right, a large woodcut-style vignette illustrates a crowded market or festival scene with multiple figures in traditional Austrian folk dress. The issuer name 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' appears in script lettering along the lower margin, with the artist's name 'Reisenbichler' printed beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Heller Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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Mondsee is a small market town on the Salzkammergut lake of the same name in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a piece of Austrian Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip issued by municipalities during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria-Hungary from around 1916 onward. The central government's metal was going into the war effort, and towns were left to solve the change problem themselves.
The designer credit to Reisenbichler is locally specific — almost certainly a regional artist or tradesman rather than a professional printer's engraver. Kaltenbrunner's signature as authorizing official was the municipality's guarantee of redemption, worth only as much as the issuing town's word.