75 Heller Eben

Eben is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years following World War I. The 75 Heller denomination places this squarely in the main wave of Austrian local Notgeld, roughly 1920–1921, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left even minor transactions impossible without improvised substitutes.

Franz Schmiedinger's signature as issuing authority is the only bureaucratic anchor tying this note to a specific local official. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0141Ib confirms the series variant, with the "b" suffix typically indicating a distinguishable printing or paper difference within the same issuer's run.