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25 Heller Steinbach am Ziehberg - Brown
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinbach am Ziehberg (Municipality of Steinbach am Ziehberg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in brown, is dominated by a rectangular landscape vignette of the village of Steinbach am Ziehberg set against a forested mountain backdrop, with a prominent church steeple and alpine conifers in the foreground; denomination numerals '25' appear in circular cartouches at the lower left and lower right corners of the vignette frame, accompanied by pine-branch and pine-cone ornamental motifs. The issuer's name arcs across the top of the note in large calligraphic lettering, and an artist's signature is visible at the lower right edge of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Steinbach am Ziehberg 25 25 |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was issued by municipalities filling a coin shortage that had been grinding since the war years — by 1920, small-denomination metal coins had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and metal requisitioning, and rural Upper Austrian communes were left to print their own stopgap fractions. Steinbach am Ziehberg is a small village in the Perg district, and its Notgeld series would have circulated only within the immediate local economy, redeemable at the commune itself.
The brown color variant likely distinguishes it from another denomination or reissue within the same series — a common practice for visual sorting in communities where not everyone could read quickly.