10 Heller Salzburg - Landesverband der Kriegsinvaliden

This 10 Heller piece was issued by the Salzburg provincial organization for war invalids, widows, and orphans — one of dozens of welfare and relief bodies across the former Habsburg lands that turned to emergency small-denomination scrip after the postwar coin shortage made low-value transactions nearly impossible. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system had drained copper and nickel coinage from circulation well before the armistice, and by 1920 the gap was still unfilled.

The Jaksch corpus documents numerous such locally-issued Heller notes from Salzburg alone, most produced in small runs and redeemed quickly. Survival rates are uneven across the series.