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| 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 |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Steegen Oberösterreich über 10 Heller. Diese Gutscheine werden von der Gemeinde Steegen auf Grund des Gemeinderatsbeschlusses vom 11. April 1920 ausgegeben und innerhalb vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe des Endtermines in Bargeld eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird bestraft. Druck: Lanz, Eferding. |
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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.