20 Heller Hartheim

Hartheim is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 1920 emission was a purely local necessity — small-denomination metal coinage had effectively vanished from everyday commerce, and municipalities were legally permitted to fill the gap with their own paper scrip.

The Baumayer and Moringer design credit is unusually specific for a village-level issue, suggesting a commissioned rather than generic design — common in the better-documented Notgeld series where local pride sometimes drove more considered artwork than strict utility required.