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90 Heller Ulmerfeld
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Ulmerfeld |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 90 Hellers (0.9) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and black notgeld on plain paper with a floral vine underprint forming the border. A circular black guilloche medallion at upper centre carries the large numeral '90', flanked by the inscription 'HELLER' on either side. The central vignette presents a letterpress view of the Ulmerfeld church with its tall steeple and adjacent buildings. The issuer's name 'MARKTGEMEINDE ULMERFELD' is set in bold black type along the lower panel. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in pink and black with the same floral vine border underprint as the obverse. A central rectangular panel contains the redemption text, the issue date '1. JÄNNER 1920', three manuscript signatures with their respective titles (Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Geschäftsführender Gemeinderat), and an embossed or printed circular seal. The denomination medallion and 'MARKTGEMEINDE ULMERFELD' panel replicate the obverse layout. |
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Ulmerfeld is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued Notgeld during the postwar currency chaos when small-denomination coins simply disappeared from circulation. The 90 Heller denomination is notably awkward — not a round figure, not a standard monetary unit — suggesting it was calculated to meet a specific change-making need rather than issued on any conventional monetary logic.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this firmly in the Austrian local emergency money corpus. Most Ulmerfeld issues had very limited print runs and were redeemed and destroyed locally, which accounts for their relative scarcity outside specialist collections.