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10 Heller Steinakirchen am Forst - Zweckverband der Gemeinden des Schulsprengels
| Issuer | Zweckverband der Gemeinden des Schulsprengels Steinakirchen am Forst |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green ink and carries a central pictorial vignette of the church and village of Steinakirchen am Forst set within a diamond-shaped frame, surrounded by wheat sheaves and foliate ornaments. To the left stands a male figure in traditional Austrian rural dress, to the right a female figure in folk costume holding flowers, both rendered in a folk-art illustrative style. Two circular medallions at upper left and right each bear the denomination '10 HELLER'; the validity period inscription appears at upper left, an anti-counterfeiting warning at upper right, and the signatures of the Schulaufseher and Obmann are printed at the lower left and right respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | GILTIGKEITSDAUER: JUNI-31 OKTOBER 1920 JEDE NACHAHMUNG IST STRAFBAR 10 HELLER Zweckverband der Gemeinden des Schulsprengels Steinakirchen am Forst SCHULAUFSEHER OBMANN |
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This is an Austrian Notgeld issue from Steinakirchen am Forst, a small Lower Austrian municipality. The issuer — a Zweckverband, literally a "special-purpose association" of school district communes — is unusual. Most Notgeld from the 1920 hyperinflationary period was issued by municipalities directly or by savings institutions; a school catchment authority issuing emergency currency reflects just how thoroughly the Austrian monetary collapse pushed administrative improvisation into places no one had anticipated.
Printed by Libertas in St. Pölten, a press responsible for a significant volume of Lower Austrian Notgeld during this period.