10 Heller Oehling

Oehling is a small rural municipality in Lower Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communes from 1919 onward as small coinage vanished entirely from circulation. The printer, Queiser of Amstetten, handled emergency currency for a number of communities in the St. Pölten-Amstetten corridor — a regional shop producing local solutions to a national coinage shortage.

Three signatories is unusual for a note of this denomination. Josef Hinterholzer, Franz Hehenberger, and Johann Kickinger likely represented the municipal council quorum required to validate the issue, a formality that added legal weight to what was essentially printed scrip.