80 Heller Pressbaum

Pressbaum is a small market town in Lower Austria, west of Vienna along the Westbahn line. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to address the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well into the post-war years — the central currency had effectively collapsed as a practical medium for everyday transactions, and towns were left to fill the gap themselves.

The 80 Heller denomination is among the more unusual values chosen by local issuers, who generally had latitude to print whatever amounts they judged practical for local trade.