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90 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Hart (Commune of Hart) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper note printed entirely in dark blue letterpress. The denomination numeral '90' appears six times in the corners and along the top and bottom borders, framed by thin parallel rule lines. The central text area carries the voucher legend in a bold blackletter typeface, with the issuer name and redemption date inscribed below in a smaller roman hand. |
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| Obverse lettering | 90 Gutschein über 90 Heller der Ortsgemeinde Hart Einlösetermin: 31.Dez.1920 — Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Der Ortsvorsteher: FRANZ ERSSL |
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Austrian Notgeld of the early 1920s emerged from a severe small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Communes across Tyrol, Styria, and Upper Austria filled the gap by issuing their own emergency pfennig and heller denominations, often in small print runs intended for purely local use. Hart was one of hundreds of villages that did exactly this — which paradoxically makes individual commune issues harder to track than the larger municipal series.
The 90-heller denomination is an odd one, chosen to satisfy specific transactional needs rather than any standardized breakdown. Franz Erssl's signature as issuing authority locates responsibility at the commune level, with no banking intermediary involved.