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50 Heller Steinakirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Steinakirchen am Forst |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld voucher with an ornate scrollwork border enclosing a central vignette of the Steinakirchen am Forst town square, dominated by the parish church tower and dated 1866, flanked on the left by a standing male figure in traditional costume and on the right by a female allegorical figure holding a sheaf of grain. The denomination '50' appears in the upper left and right corners within decorative cartouches, with the title 'Gutschein' and 'Steinakirchen a. F.' in Gothic script above the central scene. The lower margin carries the inscription '2. Auflage' and 'Gültig bis 31. März 1922', with a Bürgermeister signature in manuscript. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller 50 Gutschein Steinakirchen a. F. Bürgermeister 2. Auflage Gültig bis 31. März 1922 1866 |
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Steinakirchen am Forst is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system after 1918 left local governments scrambling to fill a genuine coin shortage — smaller denominations had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted. Marktgemeinden like Steinakirchen issued their own emergency fractional notes under provisional authority, redeemable locally and theoretically backed by the municipality's creditworthiness.
Austrian Notgeld of this period was printed by a range of local and regional printers, and quality varied considerably across issues.