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10 Heller Nachrichten
| Issuer | Mödlinger Nachrichten (City of Mödling, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 10 HELLER Mödlinger Nachrichten Für den Kundenverkehr ausgegeben mit der Verpflichtung zur vollen Einlösung in gesetzlichem Bargelde bis 31. Dezember 1920. Kein Spruch als der kennt so die Welt: Viel tut die Liebe, aber mehr noch das Geld. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of cream-coloured coarse paper with visible fibres, consistent with the wartime emergency card stock typically employed for Austrian Notgeld issues of this period. |
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Notgeld issued by a newspaper rather than a municipality is unusual enough to warrant attention. The Mödlinger Nachrichten, a regional weekly, stepped in as an issuing authority during the acute small-change shortage that followed Austria's post-war economic collapse — a shortage so severe that hundreds of towns, businesses, and civic bodies across German-speaking Austria printed their own emergency fractions between 1919 and 1921.
Press-issued Notgeld was printed on whatever equipment and stock the publisher had available, which makes condition consistency across surviving examples highly variable.