20 Heller

Pottendorf's 20 Heller Notgeld belongs to the vast wave of emergency municipal scrip issued across Austria between 1919 and 1921, when chronic coin shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small communities unable to make change. The Marktgemeinde — a market town with textile manufacturing roots going back to the 18th century — issued this note under the same legal framework that permitted hundreds of Lower Austrian municipalities to print their own low-denomination paper.

Jaksch catalog number 772 places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian series. These small-town issues were often printed in short runs and redeemed quickly, which makes intact survivors more common in collector holdings than in any record of actual daily use.