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90 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Sandl (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress vignette of the village of Sandl as seen from the north circa 1760, with a church tower and rural farmsteads set amid rolling green hills. A decorative banner scroll at top centre carries the town name 'Sandl' in Gothic script, flanked by circular cartouches bearing the denomination '90' at left and 'Heller' monogram at right. A double-rule blue border frames the entire composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | Weil es Brauch im ganzen Land, Geben wir auch hier von Sandl Heraus ein eig'nes Notgeld Worauf der Ort ist dargestellt, Wie er vor mehr den hundert Jahr Ge'n Norden hin zu schauen war. Die Gutscheine werden auf Grund des Gemeindeausschuß beschlusses vom 23. Juli 1920 ausgegeben und bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Sandl is a small market commune in the Mühlviertel, the granite upland north of the Danube, and this 90 Heller note is one of the more peculiar denominations to emerge from the Austrian Notgeld wave that peaked between 1920 and 1921. The odd face value reflects a practical calculation: local issuers often structured their series so that combined denominations would sum to a round figure, reducing the need for change during redemption.
Carl Jentsen's Kunstdruckerei in Vienna handled a substantial volume of municipal emergency currency during this period, printing for dozens of small Upper Austrian communities whose notes were as much a fundraising instrument for cash-strapped communes as a solution to the chronic small-coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitions.