80 Heller

Fritz Lach was a Viennese applied artist closely associated with the Wiener Werkstätte aesthetic, and his involvement in designing Notgeld for small Austrian municipalities was not unusual — the post-WWI emergency currency wave gave graphic artists genuine creative latitude that commercial banknote work rarely permitted. The denomination itself, 80 Heller, is an odd figure typical of Austrian Notgeld, where local authorities issued whatever values their coin shortages actually required rather than rounding to convenient numbers.

Printed by Hiebl in Grein, a small Upper Austrian town on the Danube, the note served the even smaller Marktgemeinde of Klamm during the acute coin shortage that persisted well into 1920.