25 Heller

Austrian Notgeld of this type was a hyper-local response to the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the First World War and the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Municipal and parish authorities across Austria issued their own small-denomination emergency notes in 1919–1921, often in themed sets designed to attract collectors even at the time — a practice that blurred the line between genuine circulating scrip and philatelic product almost from the start.

Hart's 25 Heller bears Franz Erssl's signature as the responsible local official. The Jaksch/Pick reference places it within the documented corpus, but survival rates for village-level Notgeld vary sharply depending on whether the issuing commune participated in the organized redemption drives of 1922.