80 Heller Meggenhofen

Meggenhofen is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and its decision to issue emergency money in 1921 places this note in the tail end of the Austrian Notgeld wave — later than most, by which point many larger municipalities had already wound down their issues. The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one, neither a round figure nor a straightforward fraction, which suggests it was calculated against a specific local exchange need rather than issued as part of a tidy series.

Austrian Gemeinde-level Notgeld from this period was typically printed by regional presses in small runs, and survival rates are uneven — village issues saw genuine local circulation, unlike the collector-targeted Serienscheine from urban centers.