10 Heller Sankt Aegidi

Sankt Aegidi is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — in the immediate postwar years when small coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The 10 Heller denomination sits at the very low end of the Notgeld range, intended purely for day-to-day transactional use when even the smallest metal coins were being hoarded or melted.

Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie was one of Vienna's principal commercial printers of the period and handled Notgeld contracts for numerous Austrian communes simultaneously. Designer Wilhelm G. Mayr was active in the Viennese graphic arts trade during this period, though his work on municipal commissions of this kind rarely received individual attribution at the time of issue — his credit here is notably specific for a note of such modest purpose.