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30 Heller St. Pölten
| Issuer | Modewarenhaus Alois Roth, St. Pölten |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned notgeld divided vertically by a dashed line into two panels. The left panel bears an oval vignette of the Wiener Tor (Vienna Gate) of Sankt Pölten, dated 1870, rendered in blue line-engraving style with the city gate, archway, and church tower visible; the denomination numeral '30' appears in the lower corners flanking the vignette. The right panel carries the Gothic-script heading 'Gut-Schein über' above the denomination 'Dreißig 30 Heller' set within a guilloche oval, with the issuer name 'Modewarenhaus Alois Roth, St. Pölten Linzerstrasse 1.' inscribed below in ornate calligraphic lettering against a decorative rose underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird infolge des Kleingeldmangels in meinem Kundenverkehre ausgegeben und bis zum 31. Oktober 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst Modewarenhaus Alois Roth St. Pölten |
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Modewarenhaus Alois Roth was a fashion goods retailer in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, issuing this 30 Heller note during the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria in the early postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal authorities and private businesses alike scrambling to plug the gap — notgeld of this kind was a commercial necessity, not a novelty. A watermarked paper substrate on a private retailer's emergency note is unusual; most comparable Austrian trade notgeld of 1920 used plain unprotected stock.