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2 Heller Steinakirchen am Forst
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinakirchen am Forst (Market Town of Steinakirchen am Forst) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Steinakirchen am Forst Zwei Heller 2 Die Gemeinde Steinakirchen a/Forst haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Bürgermeister E. Treibel, Steuer. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zwei Heller 2 GEMEINDE STEINAKIRCHEN AM FORST Die Gemeinde Steinakirchen am Forst gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 14.100 Kr. aus. Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. März 1922 im Gemeindeamte in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. |
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Austrian Notgeld from the immediate post-WWI period, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to issue their own small-denomination emergency scrip. Heller denominations were essentially worthless individually — their practical purpose was to fill the gap left by hoarded coins, which had vanished from circulation almost entirely by 1918. Steinakirchen am Forst is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities, it issued these notes through local authority rather than any central banking arrangement.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly within the documented Lower Austrian Notgeld series.