50 Heller Freinberg

Freinberg is a tiny municipality in Upper Austria, near the German border at Passau. This note belongs to the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communes from 1919 onward, when the post-war collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities starved of small-denomination coinage. Municipalities issued their own emergency paper rather than wait for Vienna to solve the problem.

The Jaksch/Pick JPR0211 series for Freinberg is obscure even by Notgeld standards — Freinberg's population was well under a thousand, meaning total print runs were negligible and local redemption was erratic at best.