20 Heller St. Lorenz am Mondsee

Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee is a small village on the western shore of the Mondsee in Upper Austria — the kind of place that would never have issued paper money under normal circumstances. This is Notgeld, the emergency small-change currency that flooded Austria in the early postwar years when coin metal had been stripped out of circulation during the war and the central monetary system had yet to recover. Thousands of Austrian municipalities printed their own fractional notes; most are artistically negligible. Gerstenbrand's work for this series is among the more carefully composed of the regional designs.