10 Heller Prägarten

Prägarten is a small Upper Austrian parish municipality — the kind of place that issued emergency small change (Kleingeld) during the profound coin shortage that gripped Austria from 1916 onward, as metal was diverted to the war effort. These municipal Notgeld pieces were technically illegal under Austrian monetary law but were tolerated out of sheer necessity; the central authorities had no practical means of supplying sufficient coinage to rural communities.

Ernst Priesgal of Steyr was a regional jobbing printer, not a security press, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village-level issue of this kind. The single authorizing signature is that of Josef Peyrl, almost certainly the Bürgermeister at the time.