10 Heller

Wolfern is a small farming parish in the Steyr-Land district, and this Heller note is a product of the acute coin shortage that paralyzed small transactions across Austria from 1914 onward. Municipal governments — Gemeinden with no banking infrastructure and no authority to strike metal — were nonetheless permitted to issue these Notgeld scrips to keep local commerce functional. Wolfern's issue is among the more modest in scale, signed by Bürgermeister Edlmayr without a countersignature, which suggests a very limited authorizing committee.

At 40 x 28 mm, this is noticeably smaller than most Austrian municipal Heller issues of the period — closer to a postage stamp than a banknote.