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10 Heller St. Pölten
| Issuer | Modenhaus Alois Roth, St. Pölten |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) printed on yellow paper in dark ink, with the issuer's trade name 'Modenhaus Alois Roth / St. Pölten' set in decorative Gothic blackletter type across the upper portion. To the left, an arched vignette encloses a fine line-engraved townscape view of the St. Pölten Rathaus with its prominent church tower and column monument, captioned 'RATHAUS' above and 'BOMMER, ST. PÖLTEN' below. To the right, the denomination '10' appears in large bold numerals within a circular ornamental frame surmounted by a ribbon banner inscribed 'GUTSCHEIN', flanked by the word 'Heller' repeated on both sides, with a four-line redemption text in Gothic script below stating the voucher is valid for 10 Heller until 31 August 1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | Modenhaus Alois Roth St. Pölten GUTSCHEIN Heller 10 Heller Dieser Gutschein wird im Verkehr mit meiner Kundschaft zur Linderung der Kleingelднot ausgegeben und für den Betrag von 10 Hellern bis zum 31. August 1920 eingelöst. RATHAUS BOMMER, ST. PÖLTEN |
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A notgeld issue from a clothing retailer — Modenhaus Alois Roth was a fashion house, not a municipal authority or bank. In the chaotic small-change shortage that gripped Austria after the First World War, private businesses of almost every kind stepped in to print their own emergency pfennig-denomination scrip, redeemable only at the issuing shop. Printed locally by Bommer, also of St. Pölten, the note would have functioned essentially as a store coupon with monetary pretension.
The 1920 dating places this late in the main Austrian notgeld wave, by which point the novelty collector market had already begun distorting production runs.