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1 Krone Linz - Bookshop F. Steurer
| Issuer | Buchhandlung F. Steurer, Linz |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Krone Zu trollig i'sts in dieser Welt die Zettel für bares Münz' zum holen Gutschein der Buchhandlung F. Steurer Linz 1 1 1 1 |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird bis Ende des Jahres 1921 nur mit Büchern und Musikalien nicht mit Bargeld eingelöst. |
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Buchhandlung F. Steurer was a bookshop in Linz that issued this emergency small-change note during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the First World War. Municipal authorities, businesses, and even private traders across Austria were permitted — or simply tolerated — in producing their own Notgeld when official coinage became functionally unavailable. A bookshop issuing currency is less strange than it sounds; the printing infrastructure was close at hand, and the reputational stake of a local merchant was often considered sufficient guarantee of redemption.
The JPR0556a-1 designation places it within the Jaksc corpus of Austrian local issues, a collecting area where provenance documentation is frequently thin.