2 Heller

Mauerkirchen is a small market town in the Innviertel, and this 2 Heller notgeld is precisely the kind of emergency scrip that proliferated across Austria and Germany in 1920 as chronic small-change shortages forced even minor municipalities to print their own fractional currency. The Heller itself was already a dying denomination — Austria would abolish it entirely in 1924 when the Krone collapsed and the Schilling system was introduced.

Local printing meant inconsistent quality control across the run, and Jaksc-catalogued Mauerkirchen pieces are notably scarce in collector holdings today, likely because most circulated hard before being discarded once the shortage eased.