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90 Heller Klaus
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klaus (Municipality of Klaus) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground printed in blue-grey with a typeset text block in German Fraktur script stating the legal basis and redemption conditions of the Notgeld issue, dated 15 June 1920. Three manuscript facsimile signatures appear below, attributed to the Kassier, Bürgermeister, and Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter; a dotted wave-pattern border frames all four sides. The printer's imprint runs along the lower margin. |
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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, the westernmost Austrian province, and this 90 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued across the former Habsburg lands after the monarchy's collapse left local economies without functioning small change. The denomination itself — 90 Heller — is characteristic of Austrian municipal Notgeld, where odd values were deliberately chosen to discourage hoarding and force re-spending within the issuing community.
F. Seitenberg, operating under proprietor A.W. Müller in Vienna's third district, handled numerous small municipal contracts of this kind in the early 1920s.