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90 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Penking (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned Notgeld voucher printed in a two-colour letterpress technique, with the issuer name PENKING and subtitle OB.-OES. set in bold display lettering at the top centre. A central vignette in black and green renders a stylised horseman in folk costume mounted on a galloping black horse, flanked by two decorative conifer motifs and set against a dark hillside. Denomination circles with the numeral 90 over HELLER appear in green at both the left and right, and the word GUTSCHEIN is repeated in the upper corners; the artist's signature F. Sieder appears along the lower left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse printed in black letterpress, with a lightly embossed underprint of the denomination numerals visible in the background. The central text block carries the redemption notice and anti-counterfeiting warning, followed by the mayoral authority line and the name of the issuing official in bold capitals. The print run designation AUFLAGE II appears in the lower right corner. |
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Penking is a small village commune in Upper Austria — the kind of place that would never have issued currency under normal circumstances. These Heller notes exist because Austria's postwar coin shortage was catastrophic enough to push even tiny rural municipalities into emergency money printing. The Notgeld wave of 1919–1921 was an administrative embarrassment that the central government could neither stop nor fully endorse.
The 90 Heller denomination is an odd choice — most Notgeld series favored round figures — suggesting Penking was filling a specific gap in local change rather than issuing for completeness or collector appeal. Designer F. Sieder was likely a local figure rather than a professional illustrator.