15 Heller

Puchberg im Machland is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria from 1916 onward. As metal coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted in sufficient quantity — hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own low-denomination emergency scrip, the so-called Notgeld. Puchberg's issue is among the more obscure, with no recorded print run and almost certainly a very limited local distribution covering little more than the immediate parish.

Authentication relied entirely on the applied official municipal stamp rather than any printed security measure, which means unstamped remainders exist and should be treated with caution.