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20 Kreuzers Komotau
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Komotau (City Municipality of Komotau) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1754-1857) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Zwanzig Kreuzer C. Mze. Die Stadt Komotauer Rentkassa löset derlei Anweisungen gegen österreich. National-Bank-Noten ein. FÜR DIE STADTGEMEINDE. Komotau, den 1. Jänner 1849. Serie Nro. Druck v. Gottlieb Haase Söhne in Prag. |
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| Protection description | Hand-applied oval ink stamp on reverse inscribed "STADTGEMEINDE KOMMOTAU" with a central foliate ornament, authenticating the note on behalf of the issuing municipality. |
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Komotau (now Chomutov, Czech Republic) issued this emergency fractional note during the revolutionary turbulence of 1849 — the tail end of the Bohemian uprisings that had convulsed the Habsburg lands the previous year. Municipal authorities across Bohemia resorted to locally issued Kleingeld substitutes when small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation, hoarded by a population with little confidence in what came next.
Gottlieb Haase Söhne was a well-established Prague printing house with a long record of quality commercial work, which makes their involvement in these provincial emergency pieces somewhat notable. The official stamp was the primary authentication mechanism — without it, the note had no standing.