10 Heller Gerotten und Pötzles

Gerotten and Pötzles are two small Lower Austrian hamlets that, like hundreds of Austrian rural communes, were forced into emergency currency during the Heller shortage of the First World War and its immediate aftermath. The Reich's small-change coinage had essentially vanished from circulation by 1916 — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — leaving local governments to fill the gap with their own Notgeld issues. Ed. J. Wallners Ww. in Vienna was a commercial printer that handled a large volume of these municipal commissions, which accounts for the relatively consistent quality across otherwise obscure issues.

The JPR0233b designation suggests at least two distinct types for this commune, with this the second variant.