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50 Heller Steegen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steegen (Municipality of Steegen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Steegen o.ö. 50 Heller Der Steegenhof im 17. Jahrhundert 1696. Die Gemeinde Steegen haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Steegen, am 11. April 1920 Der Bürgermeister: Josef Holzhauer |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Steegen, Ober-Österr. über 50 Heller. Diese Gutscheine werden von der Gemeinde Steegen auf Grund des Gemeinderatsbeschlusses vom 11. April 1920 ausgegeben und innerhalb vier Wochen nach der Bekanntgabe des Endtermines in Bargeld eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird bestraft. Druck: Lanz, Eferding. |
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Steegen is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly obscure municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The Lanz printing house in nearby Eferding supplied many of these small local issues across the region, working quickly and cheaply to meet demand from village councils that had little time and less money to spend on elaborate design work.
Josef Holzhauer's signature as issuing authority gives this note its only individualizing mark beyond the place name.