80 Heller Rodaun

Rodaun was an independent municipality southwest of Vienna until its forced incorporation into Greater Vienna in 1938. This 80 Heller note belongs to the wave of Austrian Notgeld issued in the immediate postwar years, when coin shortages left small municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional currency. The denomination itself — 80 Heller — is characteristic of the awkward arithmetic of Austrian postwar inflation, where conventional round figures had already lost practical meaning.

Rodaun is better known today as the final home of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who lived and died there. The municipality had fewer than two thousand residents at the time of issue.