50 Heller Obritzberg

Obritzberg is a small Lower Austrian village that, like hundreds of similar communities, resorted to printing its own emergency money — Notgeld — when the postwar coin shortage left ordinary transactions nearly impossible. The Austrian state was in no position to supply small change in 1920; inflation was already eroding confidence in the krone, and municipalities filled the gap themselves. Summer in St. Pölten was one of the regional printers kept busy by this surge of local commissions, producing runs for multiple Lower Austrian communities in the same period.

Heller denominations became obsolete within a few years as hyperinflation rendered them worthless in practical terms.