20 Heller Langenlois

Langenlois is a small wine-producing market town in Lower Austria's Kamptal region, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination was among the most practical issues of the period, bridging everyday transactions when metal simply wasn't circulating.

Locally printed Notgeld from small Austrian market towns was rarely produced in large quantities, and attrition was high — these notes were handled constantly in shops and markets before being redeemed and destroyed.