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90 Heller

Issuer Ortsgemeinde Hacklbrunn
Year 1920
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Value 90 Hellers (0.9)
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Obverse lettering Gutschein
90
Heller
Ortsgemeinde
Hacklbrunn
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Signature(s) Franz Schaumberger
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Hacklbrunn is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 90 Heller Notgeld is exactly what you'd expect from that setting: a hyperlocal emergency issue produced because small denomination coins had all but vanished from circulation in the immediate postwar years. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities did the same between 1920 and 1921, issuing their own paper scrip to fill the gap left by hoarded coinage.

Franz Schaumberger's signature as issuing authority is the only administrative anchor on a note whose redemption would have depended entirely on local trust. The 90 Heller denomination is slightly unusual — most village issues clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller — which may reflect a specific local pricing or wage calculation rather than standard municipal practice.

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