Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was largely a collector-driven enterprise by 1920 — the acute coin shortage that had justified local emergency currency was easing, and many Gemeinden were producing attractively printed small notes specifically for the philatelic trade rather than genuine circulation need. Haag's issue falls squarely into that pattern.
Edmund Huber was a local printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which places this firmly in the cottage-industry tier of Austrian notgeld production.
Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was largely a collector-driven enterprise by 1920 — the acute coin shortage that had justified local emergency currency was easing, and many Gemeinden were producing attractively printed small notes specifically for the philatelic trade rather than genuine circulation need. Haag's issue falls squarely into that pattern.
Edmund Huber was a local printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which places this firmly in the cottage-industry tier of Austrian notgeld production.