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90 Heller Gröbming
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gröbming (Market Town of Gröbming) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same brown-on-tan palette, dominated by a central photographic-style vignette of the Gröbming town square with the parish church steeple and the dramatic rocky massif of the Grimming mountain rising behind it. The denomination '90 HELLER' appears in bold white numerals within dark octagonal panels at the lower left and lower right corners, flanked by Art Nouveau floral side panels. A bold Gothic-script heading across the top cartouche identifies the issuer and locality. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Marktgemeinde Gröbming im Ennstale 90 HELLER 90 HELLER |
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Austrian notgeld from the Inflation period, issued by the Styrian market town of Gröbming after the collapse of the Habsburg currency system left small municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency change. The 90 Heller denomination is characteristic of the awkward arithmetic of notgeld — towns issued whatever face values covered their immediate shortfall in coinage, with no regard for round numbers.
Gröbming's series was printed locally in very small quantities. Survivorship is largely a function of collector demand at the time, since much Austrian notgeld was bought by philatelic speculators before it ever circulated.