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| Emittent | Stadtgemeinde Grein (Municipality of Grein) |
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| Jahr | 1920 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain buff-toned reverse with letterpress text in German. A boxed serial number appears in the upper centre, flanked by small ornamental flourishes. Below, a multi-line explanatory text sets out the purpose and redemption conditions of the voucher, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
| Rückseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Unterschrift(en) | Joh. Gürtler |
| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Anmerkungen |
Grein is a small market town on the Danube in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities after World War I, it resorted to printing its own Notgeld when coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. The postwar metal shortage was severe enough that even low-denomination transactions became impossible without these locally issued substitutes. Stadtgemeinde Grein's 1920 issues fall squarely into this wave of municipal emergency money — practical, unglamorous, and produced in quantity.
The single signature, Joh. Gürtler, most likely represents the town mayor or a senior municipal official authorized to validate the issue. Notgeld of this type carried genuine local accountability — the issuing municipality was legally obligated to redeem them, a requirement that made some towns more cautious about overprinting than others.