80 Heller Leonding

Leonding is a small municipality just southwest of Linz, and this 80 Heller note belongs to the vast, chaotic wave of Notgeld that Austrian municipalities began issuing from 1914 onward when metal coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight. The 80 Heller denomination is an oddity — most Notgeld series favored round or conventionally divisible values, and 80 Heller suggests this was calibrated to fill a specific gap left by another denomination already in circulation locally.

The official stamp is the only security measure, which was entirely typical for small municipal issues where the town's own administrative authority was considered guarantee enough against forgery.