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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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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0887a-10 |
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| 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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| Signature(s) | Alois Schweighofer (Vizebürgermeister) and Anton Prenninger (Bürgermeister) and Ig. Kreil (Gemeinderat) and August Schachinger (Gemeinderat) |
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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.