50 Heller Maria Laach

Maria Laach am Jauerling is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage. The economic disruption following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy had drained circulating coin from everyday commerce, and local governments filled the gap themselves. This 50 Heller note is part of that wave.

The JPR0584b designation places it in Jaksch's Austrian Notgeld catalog. The "b" variant typically indicates a printing or paper distinction within the same municipal issue — worth checking against the "a" if building a matched set.