10 Heller Weiten

Weiten is a small village in Lower Austria's Melk district, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld crisis that gripped German-speaking Europe after the First World War — small municipalities printing their own emergency scrip because the state simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage. The designer, Lehrer Friedrich Grausgruber, was almost certainly the local schoolteacher; it was not unusual for village educators to take on such commissions when professional illustrators were neither available nor affordable.

Chwala's Druck on Zieglergasse in Vienna's seventh district handled the printing — a small commercial press, not one of the major security printers of the period.