20 Heller Mondsee

This is an Austrian Notgeld piece — emergency small-change scrip issued by the market town of Mondsee in the Salzkammergut at a moment when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system had drained coins from circulation almost entirely. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own Heller notes in 1919–1920; Mondsee was simply one of them, and the series was rendered obsolete once the new Austrian crown stabilization measures took hold.

The designer credit to Reisenbichler is atypical — most comparable municipal issues went unsigned or credited a local printer rather than a named artist. The countersignature of A. Kaltenbrunner authenticated the issue on behalf of the Gemeindeverwaltung.