90 Heller Schwarzenthal

Schwarzenthal is a small Austrian village community, and this 90 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept rural Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a period when chronic coin shortages forced even minor parishes and farming communes to print their own emergency small change. The odd denomination is characteristic of the period; issuers weren't mimicking standard coinage but filling whatever gaps their local economy actually needed.

Franz Zeilinger's signature as the authorizing official is the only administrative anchor tying this piece to a specific individual in the commune's records. Small-community Notgeld of this type was rarely printed in large quantities, and redemption rates were high once the Austrian National Bank stabilized the supply of small coins.