20 Heller Aigen

Aigen was a small independent municipality on the southern outskirts of Salzburg — it was only incorporated into the city proper in 1935. This note is a Notgeld issue, one of thousands produced by Austrian towns and communes during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small transactions nearly impossible without local substitutes, and communes like Aigen filled the gap with their own paper.

G. & D. Druck E.W. Müller was a Salzburg-based printer that handled a number of regional Notgeld contracts — a local job, for a local note, solving a local problem.