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1 Krone Wien
| Issuer | N.Ö. Landesjugendamt (Lower Austrian Provincial Youth Welfare Office) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 110 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Woodcut-style letterpress design in black on light grey paper, with a central landscape vignette of the Lunzer See valley showing alpine mountains, forested slopes, and a farmstead among trees. The denomination '1 KRONE' is set in bold block lettering across the upper border, flanked at upper right by a heraldic shield vignette. Voucher text and validity date occupy the left panel, issuing authority details the right panel, and decorative spiral rosette ornaments fill the lower corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 KRONE GUTSCHEIN ÜBER K 1- GÜLTIG BIS 15.NOV.1920 WIEN, 6.JUNI 1920 N.Ö. LANDES-JUGENDAMT JUGENDHEIM SEEREIT AM LUNZER SEE |
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Lower Austrian provincial welfare authorities issued notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy — small denominations in particular had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919–20, hoarded or melted, rendering everyday transactions nearly impossible. The Landesjugendamt's decision to issue its own emergency scrip is unusual; most notgeld issuers were municipalities, commercial firms, or savings banks, not child welfare offices. Whether this reflected administrative opportunism or a genuine effort to fund welfare operations through scrip circulation remains unclear.
The Jaksc reference places this among the better-documented Lower Austrian welfare issues, though survivor populations are modest.