20 Heller Wernstein

Wernstein am Inn is a village on the Austrian bank of the Inn River, directly across from Bavaria — a border position that gave local emergency currency an almost immediate cross-border relevance during the Notgeld period. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, Wernstein issued its own small-denomination paper money in 1920 to address the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the disruptions of postwar currency reform.

Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a well-established Linz printing house responsible for a significant number of Upper Austrian Notgeld issues from this period. The "b" suffix in the Jaksch reference indicates a variant within the 20 Heller denomination — likely a color or paper distinction rather than a date change.