20 Heller St. Roman

Sankt Roman is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian communities between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Municipal governments were legally permitted to issue their own emergency small-denomination scrip, and thousands did, with wildly varying production quality depending on local resources.

The Widegger mayoral signature dates the note to a specific, narrow administrative window. Cross-referencing the Jaksc catalog places this among the rarer rural Upper Austrian issues — smaller Gemeinden printed in far lower quantities than the tourist-oriented Notgeld series produced simultaneously by larger towns.