Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Heller Steyr
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Steyr (City of Steyr) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 73 × 45 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on a finely cross-hatched underprint, the reverse is dominated by the large gothic-script inscription 'Zehn Heller' across the centre within a scallop-bordered panel. The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold square cartouches at upper left and upper right, and a curved banner at the top reads 'Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Steyr / Gültig bis 30. Juni 1920'. Below the central vignette, three lines of text affirm the municipality's legal liability to redeem the note, followed by the printed titles and facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Steyr Gültig bis 30. Juni 1920 Zehn Heller Die Stadtgemeinde Steyr haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Vicebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Steyr's 1919 emergency municipal issues belong to the massive wave of Notgeld that flooded Austria and Germany as the postwar collapse of central authority left local governments scrambling to fill a chronic small-change shortage. The Habsburg monetary system had disintegrated, the new Austrian republic had no functioning currency infrastructure, and towns like Steyr simply printed their own. The city had the industrial base to do it — Steyr was already home to significant metalworking and arms manufacturing, and the organizational capacity to run a local printing operation was not in short supply.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was rarely redeemed through formal banking channels. Most circulated briefly, were collected as curiosities, and quietly became worthless.