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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steegen (Municipality of Steegen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Lanz, Eferding |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der 10 Heller. Heller 10 1370. 1896. Gemeinde Steegen Die Gemeinde Steegen haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Steegen, am 11. April 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Josef Ackeauer |
| Reverse description | The reverse is set within a plain single-rule border and carries entirely typeset text in Gothic (Fraktur) script on an unadorned yellowish paper ground. The heading reads 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Steegen / Oberösterreich / über 10 Heller,' followed by a paragraph stating the note's legal basis as a municipal council resolution of 11 April 1920 and its redeemability in cash within four weeks of announced redemption date. A cautionary anti-counterfeiting notice and the printer's imprint appear at the foot. |
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Steegen is a small village in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922 when chronic coin shortages — worsened by the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system — forced even the smallest communities to print their own small-denomination scrip. Lanz of Eferding was a local job printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village issue at this level.
Collector-series Notgeld printed for the philatelic trade this is not — Steegen was too obscure to attract that kind of commercial interest.