50 Heller Allerheiligen

Austrian municipal notgeld of this type emerged from a hard practical problem: the post-WWI collapse left the new republic without sufficient small coinage for everyday transactions. Rather than wait, thousands of municipalities printed their own emergency notes under a loosely supervised arrangement. Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis, a small parish community in the Perg district, issued this 50 Heller piece as part of that wave — one of the more obscure issuers in a series that runs to several thousand distinct types.

K. Wiesinger's signature indicates a local official authorization, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal signatory. These notes were redeemable only within the issuing community, which kept circulation tight and losses on unredeemed notes modest.