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20 Heller Steinaweg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinaweg (Municipality of Steinaweg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on plain paper and enclosed within a simple ruled rectangular border. The upper portion carries a landscape vignette of an open sky with birds in flight and distant hills. At lower left, two decorative Art Nouveau ornamental roundels flank the large numeral '20'. To the right, a framed text block in German states the redemption conditions and validity period, followed at the bottom by the denomination legend 'Zwanzig Heller.' in bold serif type above a ruled line. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Ellenauer (Vizebürgermeister) and J. Raussey (Bürgermeister) |
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Steinaweg is a small Lower Austrian village, and like hundreds of similar communities it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper in 1920 when the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The Austrian Notgeld wave of 1919–1921 produced thousands of these municipal issues, most commissioned locally and printed in short runs — Steinaweg's 20 Heller being among the more obscure examples, with Tomschik's designer credit suggesting a regional rather than metropolitan print house.
Signed by both the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister, lending it a degree of official weight unusual for so modest an issue.