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90 Heller Klaus

Issuer Gemeinde Klaus (Municipality of Klaus)
Year 1920
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Currency Krone (1918-1921)
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Reverse description The reverse is printed in blue-grey on plain cream paper and is entirely typographic, enclosed within a simple dotted and wave-pattern border. The text body records the legal basis of issue — a municipal council resolution of 15 June 1920 — together with redemption conditions stipulating personal presentation at the municipal office up to a maximum of K 20. Three manuscript facsimile signatures appear below, identified by their printed role titles, with the printer's imprint "Entwurf u. Druck v. F. Sertenberg (Inh. A.W. Müller) Wien, III." at the foot.
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Signature(s) Hans Vogl (Kassier), Jenner Schiffler (Bürgermeister) and Julius Holzmüller (Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter)
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Klaus is a small municipality in Vorarlberg, and this 90 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria after the First World War — a period when coin shortages were so severe that hundreds of individual villages and towns printed their own emergency fractional currency. The denomination itself, 90 Heller, is characteristic of the period's odd arithmetic: issuers often chose unconventional values to discourage hoarding and force eventual redemption.

Printed by F. Sertenberg in Vienna, it bears three local signatories — the mayor, his deputy, and the treasurer — giving it a bureaucratic legitimacy that distinguished municipal Notgeld from purely commercial scrip.

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