10 Heller Niedertalheim

Niedertalheim is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural municipalities unable to obtain sufficient coinage, prompting hundreds of local governments — Gemeinden — to issue their own Notgeld under emergency provisions. Niedertalheim's series falls among the most modest of these emissions, produced for purely practical local use rather than the collector-targeted decorative Notgeld that larger towns were simultaneously churning out.

Signed by Alois Schick, the Gemeindevorsteher at the time of issue.