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10 Heller Steinbach an der Steyr
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinbach an der Steyr (Municipality of Steinbach an der Steyr) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green on cream paper Notgeld issue. The left panel contains an oval vignette with crossed swords and a heraldic emblem above the year 1472, surmounted by ornamental scrollwork border, with a large numeral '10' in a decorated box below. The right panel carries the issuer inscription 'Gemeinde Steinbach a.d. Steyr' at top, the denomination 'Gutschein für Zehn Heller' in Gothic script, a liability clause in German text, and three manuscript signatures below their respective office titles. |
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| Signature(s) | FranzReal and Ignaz Siegl and Ed. Schipek |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Gemeinde Steinbach an der Steyr, a small market community on the Steyr river in Upper Austria, issued these low-denomination notes to keep local commerce moving when small change simply disappeared from circulation. The 10 Heller denomination was among the most practical and most hoarded of the series, being the exact size of transactions that copper coinage had previously handled.
Three signatories authenticate the issue: the signatures of Franz Real, Ignaz Siegl, and Ed. Schipek suggest municipal and possibly local commercial co-authorization, consistent with how many smaller communities structured their issue authority.