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90 Heller Nachrichten
| Issuer | Mödlinger Nachrichten (City of Mödling, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in violet-blue on cream paper stock, the obverse is divided into three vertical panels. The left and right panels each contain a vignette of the Austrian double-headed eagle with shield, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with the denomination numeral '90' repeated at top and bottom. The central panel bears the large bold title 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 90 HELLER' at top, a cursive script legend 'Mödlinger Nachrichten', a small architectural vignette of a local church or chapel below, and a redemption clause text at the foot; a narrow right-hand panel carries a vertical aphoristic inscription in Gothic script within a ruled box. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 90 HELLER Mödlinger Nachrichten Für den Kundenverkehr ausgegeben mit der Verpflichtung zur vollen Einlösung in gesetzlichem Bargelde bis 31. Dezember 1920. Kein Spruch als der kennt so die Welt: Viel tut die Liebe, aber mehr noch das Geld. |
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Austrian municipal emergency money — Notgeld — proliferated after World War I as coins vanished from circulation due to hoarding and metal shortages. Mödling, a small town south of Vienna, was among hundreds of Lower Austrian communities that issued their own provisional scrip rather than wait for the central government to resolve the coin famine. The Mödlinger Nachrichten, the local newspaper, acted as issuing authority here — an arrangement that was genuinely common in this period, with printers, merchants, and civic organizations all stepping in to fill the gap.
The 90 Heller denomination is characteristically awkward, a value that exists purely because 10 and 20 Heller coins were the specific denominations that had disappeared from daily use.