90 Heller Kössen in Tirol

Kössen is a small market village in the Tyrolean district of Kitzbühel, and this 90 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local communities without adequate small change. Wagner of Innsbruck handled an enormous volume of these Tyrolean community issues between 1919 and 1921 — the firm was essentially the default regional printer for Notgeld series across the Inn valley and surrounding districts.

The denomination itself is mildly unusual. Most issues gravitated toward round figures; 90 Heller suggests Kössen was deliberately filling a gap left by other denominations already in circulation locally.