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20 Heller Steegen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steegen (Municipality of Steegen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on cream paper within a double-ruled border with ornate Jugendstil scrollwork corner ornaments, the obverse carries a half-portrait vignette of Emperor Ferdinand II in period dress with ruff collar at the left field, alongside a central landscape vignette of the Khaselmayrhof farm complex at Langeapeuerbach dated 1616–1633. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large bold Gothic type at both left and right margins, with the issuer title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Steegen Ob.Öst.' set across the upper margin. The lower margin bears the date 'Gemeinde-Steegen, am 22 Juni 1920' and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on plain grey-buff paper, the reverse is enclosed within a simple rectangular border composed of a continuous row of fine vertical rule lines with corner ornaments. The issuer name 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Steegen (O.-Oe.)' is set in large serif type at the top, followed by the denomination statement 'über 20 Heller.' in bold letterpress, with two paragraphs of redemption and anti-counterfeiting text in a smaller roman typeface below. |
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Steegen is a village in Tyrol, Austria, and like hundreds of similarly small communities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination places this squarely in the everyday transaction tier: tram fares, bread, small change that the national mint simply could not supply fast enough.
Municipal Notgeld from Tyrolean villages at this scale was typically printed by regional jobbing printers in short runs, often on whatever paper stock was available. Survival rates vary enormously by commune — some issues are common, others nearly vanished because locals redeemed them promptly once coinage returned.