20 Heller Himberg

Himberg is a small market town southeast of Vienna, and this 20 Heller notgeld is among the more obscure Austrian municipal emissions of the post-WWI period. These small-denomination local notes were printed to address the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy — the Heller itself would be abolished in 1925 when the Schilling replaced the Krone as the national currency.

The print date of 30 April 1945 recorded in the reference data almost certainly reflects a cataloguing or transcription anomaly, not the actual production date for a 1920 Heller note.