30 Heller St. Gotthard

A product of the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the economic collapse of the First World War. Municipal governments across Austria issued their own small-denomination emergency money between roughly 1919 and 1922 because the central supply of low-value coinage had effectively ceased — hoarding, metal shortages, and runaway inflation had drained coins from everyday commerce entirely. St. Gotthard, a small Upper Austrian municipality, solved the problem the same way hundreds of others did: the Bürgermeister and his deputy signed off on locally printed scrip.

Freilinger's title — Vizebürgermeister — appearing alongside Sachsenhofer's on a 30-Heller note is a reminder of how granularly this crisis reached into local government.