20 Heller Vorderstoder

Vorderstoder is a small alpine municipality in Upper Austria with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred in 1920. Its decision to issue emergency paper money — Notgeld — was entirely typical of the period, when the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left rural communities starved of small change. What makes municipal issues like this one worth tracking is precisely the hyperlocal authority behind them: no bank, no regional government, just a village council authorizing its own scrip.

The "b" variant designation in the Jaksch reference usually signals a difference in paper stock, ink color, or overprint detail from the primary type — worth confirming against a confirmed "a" example before attribution.