10 Heller Sankt Peter am Wimberg 1920

Sankt Peter am Wimberg is a small Upper Austrian commune, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities in 1920 it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small coinage that persisted well after the armistice. The Austrian state simply could not mint fast enough to meet demand, leaving towns to fill the gap themselves.

The Jaksc catalogue documents over a thousand such Austrian municipal issues; this 10 Heller piece is among the more obscure, from a village whose total population barely registered against the administrative chaos of the collapsing Habsburg monetary system.