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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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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0803ld-90 |
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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. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for a light grey ghosted show-through of the obverse text and border, visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock, leaving the face otherwise blank. |
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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.