99 Heller St. Georgen im Attergau

St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market commune on the western shore of the Attersee in Upper Austria. This 99 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921, when the post-imperial monetary system collapsed badly enough that even minor rural municipalities were forced to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden served several surrounding communities during this period, lending the regional issues a certain typographic consistency.

The denomination itself — 99 Heller rather than a round figure — was deliberate: notes below 1 Krone technically fell under different redemption obligations, a minor regulatory arbitrage that dozens of Austrian communes quietly exploited.