50 Heller St. Johann in Engstetten

This note belongs to the vast Austrian Notgeld emergency currency wave of 1920–1921, when hundreds of small municipalities printed their own low-denomination scrip to address a chronic shortage of small change following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Sankt Johann in Engstetten is a minor Lower Austrian parish near Amstetten — the printer F. Kleiar was a local Amstetten firm, keeping production close. Three signatories authenticated each note: the Bürgermeister, the Vicebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat member, an unusually thorough endorsement for a rural Heller note.