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20 Heller Steyregg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Steyregg (Municipality of Steyregg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green with a central guilloche underprint incorporating the large numeral '20' in an interlaced ornamental design flanked by Art Nouveau scrollwork. Four lines of Gothic-script verse by Goethe are printed in red at the top of the note. Below the central vignette, a legal text in German records the municipal council resolution of 6 April 1920, specifying the total issue of 56,000 Kronen and the redemption period from 1 to 31 December 1920. |
| Reverse lettering | Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß, Wer nie in kummervollen Nächten Auf seinem Bette weinend saß, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte. Gemeindebeschluß vom 6. April 1920. Die Stadtgemeinde Steyregg gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 56.000 Kronen aus. G.-R.-B. 6. April 1920. Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Einlösetermin 1. Dezember bis 31. Dezember 1920. |
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Steyregg is a small market town on the Danube just east of Linz, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage following the postwar economic collapse. The Austrian state simply could not produce enough fractional currency to meet everyday needs, so local authorities filled the gap themselves, typically in runs modest enough that survival rates vary considerably by issuing town.
Steyregg's emissions are among the less-documented Upper Austrian Notgeld issues, making precise print-run figures difficult to confirm.