50 Heller Stattersdorf

Stattersdorf was a small industrial village in Lower Austria — today absorbed into Sankt Pölten — that issued its own emergency currency during the Notgeld period following Austria's post-WWI economic collapse. These municipal scrip notes were a practical response to a nationwide coin shortage so severe that individual communes, factories, and even private businesses printed their own small-denomination paper to keep local commerce moving. Three signatories on a 50 Heller note from a village this size suggests the full municipal council was involved in authorizing the issue, which was common practice for legitimizing what was legally questionable tender.