Catalog
10 Heller St. Georgen an der Leys
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Georgen an der Leys (Municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Leys) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Heller 10 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Georgen a.d. Leys gültig bis 28. Februar 1921. Die Gemeinde St. Georgen a.d. Leys löst diesen Schein vom 15. bis 28. Februar 1921 ein. Alois Schweighofer, Vizebürgermeister Anton Prenninger, Bürgermeister Ig. Kreil, Gemeinderat August Schachinger, Gemeinderat |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for the show-through of the obverse design, visible in reverse mirror image through the thin paper stock; the church vignette appears at right and the text block at left, both rendered in a pale grey-blue tone. A lightly printed outer border matching the obverse frame is discernible around the edges. |
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St. Georgen an der Leys is a small Lower Austrian municipality, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communities from around 1920 onward as chronic coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Four signatories — the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and two Gemeinderäte — authenticated each note individually, a level of local bureaucratic formality that reflects how seriously even tiny communities took their emergency issuing obligations. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0887a places this firmly within the catalogued Lower Austrian municipal series.