10 Heller Streitwiesen

Streitwiesen is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly tiny communities during the early 1920s, it issued its own notgeld to address the catastrophic small-change shortage that followed Austria's postwar economic collapse. What distinguishes this particular note is the signing authority: the four signatories are not municipal officials in any conventional sense — a forester, an innkeeper, a forestry administrator, and a property owner pressed into service as guarantors of local scrip. That arrangement was legally improvised and tells you something about how thin civil administration was at the village level in 1920.

The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR1049a confirms this as part of the catalogued Austrian Kleingeldscheine series. At 66 × 59 mm, the note is roughly square — an unusual proportion for the type.