50 Heller Auberg

Auberg is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued emergency small change — Notgeld — during the postwar period when metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The Austrian state was in no position to supply it. Local authorities filled the gap themselves, often printing runs so small that survival rates are surprisingly low despite the notes being less than a century old.

The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0066a places this within the standard Upper Austrian municipal series. Parish-level Notgeld from villages this size typically circulated within a tight geographic radius and was redeemed quickly once federal coinage restabilized — most never traveled far from the issuing office.