50 Heller Desselbrunn

Austrian Notgeld of the post-WWI years was produced by the thousands of issuing authorities, but the smaller Upper Austrian municipalities — Desselbrunn among them — tend to be overlooked in favor of the more decorative urban issues. This is a purely functional emergency piece, authorized under the chaotic interregnum between the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the establishment of stable Austrian currency administration. L. Haase of Linz handled several such municipal commissions in the region, working fast and cheap.

The Bürgermeister's signature, Hüthmair, and the applied official stamp are the only authentication this note carried against counterfeiting — a low bar, but typical of the legal minimum required under the 1919–1920 Notgeld authorization framework.