80 Heller Neufelden - Bezirksausschuss für Jugendfürsorge

Neufelden is a small market town in Upper Austria, and in 1920 the acute shortage of small change across Austria prompted even highly localized administrative bodies to issue emergency currency. The Bezirksausschuss für Jugendfürsorge — a district youth welfare committee — is among the more unusual issuing authorities in the Austrian Notgeld corpus. Social welfare offices issuing their own emergency paper is not unheard of in this period, but it remains far less common than municipal or savings bank issues, and raises the question of whether proceeds or float were directed toward welfare funding.