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20 Heller Steinbach an der Steyr
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinbach an der Steyr (Municipality of Steinbach an der Steyr) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Steinbach a.d. Steyr Gutschein für Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Steinbach a.d. Steyr haftet für die Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen Gemeinde-Vermögen Der Vizebürgermeister Der Bürgermeister Der Kassier |
| Reverse description | Light green note printed in dark ink, bordered by a dotted frame. The issuer's name 'Gemeinde Steinbach a.d. Steyr' runs across the top in Gothic script. A central rectangular vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Steinbach an der Steyr, with riverside buildings, wooded hills, and mountains in the background rendered in fine line engraving. Two rosette ornaments flank the vignette at upper left and right. The validity date 'Gältig bis 31. Dezemb. 1920' appears at lower left, an anti-counterfeiting warning at lower right, and the denomination 'Zwanzig 20 Heller' in large Gothic lettering at the foot. |
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Steinbach an der Steyr is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage in the years following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. The Heller denominations were practically worthless individually; this 20 Heller note would have been a fraction of even modest daily transactions, but the coins it replaced had simply ceased to circulate.
Austrian municipal Notgeld of this period was produced under no central printing authority — quality, paper stock, and design execution varied entirely at local discretion. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1025-20 confirms this as the catalogued type for Steinbach, distinguishing it from the larger-denomination issues sometimes produced alongside.