10 Heller Viehdorf

One of countless Austrian Notgeld issues printed in the chaotic years following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, this Viehdorf piece was produced locally by J. Kleint in Amstetten — a printer serving a cluster of small Lower Austrian municipalities scrambling to address acute small-change shortages. The signatures of three municipal officials, including both the mayor and the deputy mayor, were required to give the note any semblance of legitimate authority at a moment when trust in paper currency was threadbare.

The designer, Steffi Reinelt, is otherwise untraced in the standard references — almost certainly a local figure rather than a professional graphic artist.