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10 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Town of Mondsee) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper, the reverse carries the denomination '10 Heller' at upper left alongside a redemption text block in period script. The right half is occupied by a woodcut-style vignette of a figure rowing on the Mondsee lake set against an Alpine landscape. The same geometric chain border as the obverse frames the design, with 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' in cursive at lower right and the artist's name 'Reisenbichler' lettered beneath the lower border. |
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| Signature(s) | Ant. Kaltenbrunner |
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Mondsee is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues produced across the former Habsburg lands after Austria-Hungary's collapse left a catastrophic shortage of small change. Municipal and local authorities — down to the level of individual market towns — printed their own emergency fractional currency from roughly 1919 onward, filling a gap that Vienna's central institutions simply couldn't address fast enough.
The Kaltenbrunner signature almost certainly reflects a local official, likely the Bürgermeister or treasurer, rather than a banking functionary. Designer credit to Reisenbichler is atypical — most issues this small went unsigned by their artists.