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20 Kronen Traisen
| Issuer | Fischer'sche Weicheisen- und Stahlgießerei A.-G., Traisen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper emergency note (Gutschein) produced by letterpress, with a tall Art Nouveau ornamental border vignette along the left margin composed of interlaced foliate and geometric motifs printed in dark brown. The central field carries the title "GUTSCHEIN No" in bold decorative type above the denomination "für K 20.— Zwanzig Kronen" set between ruled lines, followed by multi-line German body text detailing the conditions of issue. The issuer's name, "Fischer'sche Weicheisen- und Stahlgießerei A.-G.", appears in bold at the lower portion of the note, below which a manuscript ink signature in pink is applied by hand. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN No 3669 für K 20.— Zwanzig Kronen welcher infolge Kleingeldmangel für die Lohnauszahlung am 2. November 1918 ausgegeben wird. Der Gutschein ist spätestens am Mittwoch den 6. November an der Geschäftskasse einzulösen. Traisen, am 1. November 1918. Fischer'sche Weicheisen- und Stahlgießerei A.-G. |
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Fischer'sche Weicheisen- und Stahlgießerei was an iron and steel foundry in Traisen, Lower Austria — not a bank. This note is a Kriegsnotgeld issue, emergency scrip printed by an industrial firm to pay its own workers when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by late 1918. Dozens of Austrian manufacturers did the same in the final months of the war, each printing their own obligations redeemable only at the issuing works.
The Habsburg monetary system was already in collapse when this was printed. Most factory-issued Notgeld of this type was redeemed and destroyed, which makes survivors from smaller industrial issuers proportionally scarce.