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90 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Pürstling (Commune of Pürstling, Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 90 Hellers (0.9) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress, enclosed within a decorative Art Nouveau-style border of interlocking scrollwork and foliate motifs running along all four edges. The central field carries the denomination text in bold blackletter and Roman typefaces, with the issuing authority named in the body text. The signature line of the Ortsvorsteher (village mayor) Joh. Wagner appears at the foot of the text block. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über neunzig Heller wofür die Ortsgemeinde Pürstling neunzig Heller in gesetzlichem Bargelde bis 31. Dezember 1920 ersetzt. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Ortsvorsteher: Joh. Wagner. |
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Pürstling is a tiny rural commune in the Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria, and this 90 Heller Notgeld emerges from the acute small-change famine that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments across German-speaking Austria printing their own fractional notes — thousands of distinct issues, most in editions of just a few hundred.
The 90 Heller denomination is an odd one, rarely chosen, which suggests it was calculated to complement an existing set rather than serve as a standalone circulating piece. Signed by Joh. Wagner, presumably the commune's Bürgermeister or treasurer at the time.