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10 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Town of Mondsee) |
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| Size | 71 × 46 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Heller Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Heller Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dez. 1920 von der Markt Gemo-Vorstehung Mondsee in gesetz. Währung eingelöst Der Bürgermeister Ant. Kaltenbrunner Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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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.