20 Heller Weyer

Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from a genuine small-change crisis in the early postwar years, when metal coinage had all but vanished from everyday commerce. Weyer, a small Upper Austrian market town on the Enns river, resolved the problem locally — the dual municipal issuer reflects the administrative split between Weyer-Markt and Weyer-Land, two legally distinct communities that shared the practical need for fractional currency and pooled the effort.

Herdina-Peter was a local printer, not a specialist security firm. That Wittwer's design was executed in-house rather than sent to Vienna or Graz is typical of the more remote Notgeld issues.