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1 Krone Linz - Bookshop F. Steurer
| Issuer | Buchhandlung F. Steurer, Linz |
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| Value | 1 Krone |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a whimsical pen-and-ink vignette in a Germanic woodcut style, showing a jester or harlequin figure seated at a desk with an owl perched beside him, set against a blue guilloche underprint with a decorative border. The numeral '1' appears in each of the four corners. A text panel in Gothic blackletter script below the central vignette reads the issuer designation. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a blue guilloche underprint with a fine cross-hatched pattern enclosed within a decorative frame. The entire face carries a redemption notice in Gothic blackletter script, stating that the voucher is redeemable until the end of 1921 exclusively in books and sheet music, not in cash. |
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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.