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50 Heller Steinakirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Steinakirchen am Forst |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller 50 Gutschein Steinakirchen a. F. Bürgermeister 2. Auflage Gültig bis 31. März 1922 1866 |
| Reverse description | Plain pale buff paper with a lightly printed decorative rectangular border of repeating scroll ornaments enclosing several lines of Gothic script text setting out the redemption terms of the voucher, issued by the Gemeinde Steinakirchen am Forst, with a validity statement and note on convertibility. The denomination '50 Heller' appears at the top in Gothic lettering, followed by 'Gutschein' and the issuer line, with validity and exchange conditions in smaller script below. |
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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.