30 Heller Tafelberg

Austrian municipal notgeld from the post-WWI inflation period, when the central government's inability to supply small-denomination coinage forced hundreds of local authorities to print their own emergency paper. Tafelberg — a small community in Lower Austria — issued this 30 Heller note under the signature of Johann Morawetz, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or a senior municipal official at the time. These local issues were technically redeemable but in practice many municipalities quietly retired the obligation once the national currency stabilized in the early 1920s.

The 1920 date places this firmly in the chaotic transitional period between the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Krone system and the eventual introduction of the Austrian Schilling in 1925.