20 Heller Säusenstein

Säusenstein is a tiny village in Lower Austria — so small that by the time this Heller note was issued in 1920, the postwar currency crisis had essentially forced dozens of Austrian municipalities to print their own emergency money, Notgeld, simply to maintain local commerce. The federal supply of small-denomination coins had collapsed entirely, and the gaps were filled by parishes, towns, and market communities across the country.

Printed by F. Kielar in nearby Amstetten with design credit to Oskar Rettinger, this is a genuinely local production — not a generic note dressed with a place name, but something commissioned at the village level. Rettinger's involvement suggests a degree of care unusual for a 20 Heller piece from a settlement this size.