10 Heller Neuhofen a. d. Ybbs

One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced after the First World War, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to create their own small-denomination emergency money. Neuhofen an der Ybbs, a small market town in Lower Austria, had this 10 Heller piece printed locally at F. Rielar in nearby Amstetten — a practical choice that kept costs and transit time down when both were scarce. The design credit to Emerich Kratki suggests at least some local artistic ambition beyond a plain typeset chit. Four signatories rather than the usual two or three points to a community taking its self-issued currency unusually seriously.