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5 Kronen Wien
| Issuer | N.Ö. Landesjugendamt (Lower Austrian State Youth Welfare Office), Vienna |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Stefan Eggler |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 5 KRONEN GILTIG BIS 15.NOV.1920 N.O. LANDES/ JUGENDAMT WIEN/6.JUNI 1920. JUGENDHEIM GAMING. (Translation: Voucher for 5 Crowns Valid until 15 November 1920, N.Ö. State Youth Welfare Office, Vienna, 6 June 1920. Youth Home Gaming.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in teal-green on cream paper, its letterpress text block enclosed within a decorative chain-link border. A bold header band at the top carries the Goethe motto in capitals, below which the full redemption and usage conditions of the voucher are set out in an art-nouveau-influenced hand-lettered typeface, with the artist's monogram placed discreetly at the lower right corner of the border. |
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This note was issued not by a bank but by the Niederösterreichisches Landesjugendamt — the provincial child welfare authority of Lower Austria — during the acute postwar currency shortage of 1920, when municipalities, welfare offices, trade associations, and even individual businesses across the former Habsburg territories were issuing their own emergency small-change notes (Notgeld) to plug gaps left by a central bank overwhelmed by hyperinflationary pressure. It is unusual to find a social welfare agency among the issuers; most institutional Notgeld came from commercial or municipal bodies.
Stefan Eggler's involvement places this among the more deliberately designed pieces of Austrian Notgeld — his work appears across several Viennese issues of the period rather than the hastily typeset slips that dominate the emergency coinage literature.