30 Heller St. Georgen am Walde

Sankt Georgen am Walde is a small Upper Austrian market commune that, like hundreds of similar communities, issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 30 Heller denomination sits in the mid-range of such issues, where local governments were essentially printing their own change. Druckerei Hiebl in nearby Grein was a regional press that handled several such commissions across the area, keeping production local and costs minimal.

Three signatories authenticate the note: the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister, which was the full weight of the municipal executive for a village of this scale. Rudolf Reiser's designer credit is the one detail that elevates this above a purely administrative artefact.