20 Heller Berg

This note is a Notgeld issue, the Austrian emergency small-change currency that flooded the country after World War One when metal coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. Berg im Attergau is a small municipality in Upper Austria on the Attersee, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it printed its own fractional denominations simply to keep local commerce moving. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden was a regional press that handled numerous such commissions from surrounding lake-district parishes.

Three signatories — all bearing the surname Anton — authenticated each note by hand stamp and signature. A coincidence worth noting when examining authentication.