10 Heller Schattleiten u. Schweinsegg

One of the countless municipal emergency issues printed across Austria during the First World War, this note was produced when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation as metal was redirected to the war effort. The Gemeinden of Schattleiten and Schweinsegg — two tiny rural settlements near Ternberg in the Steyr-Land district — pooled their authority to issue jointly, a practical arrangement that was unusual even by the improvised standards of wartime Notgeld.

Emil Prietzel operated as a local commercial printer in Steyr, handling bread-and-butter trade work. Notgeld commissions like this one kept such shops busy from roughly 1916 onward.