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50 Heller Steinbach am Ziehberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinbach am Ziehberg (Municipality of Steinbach am Ziehberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typographic Notgeld issue printed in blue-green ink on white paper, with an ornate foliate border enclosing the entire design. The denomination numeral '50' appears in decorated cartouches at upper left and upper right, while a four-line German verse in Fraktur script occupies the upper centre within a scrollwork frame. Below, the issuer title 'Gutschein Steinbach am Ziehberg' is set in large calligraphic Fraktur type, followed by a block of Gothic text setting out the municipal resolution of 8 Juni 1920, the total issue value of 20,000 Kronen, and the redemption terms, concluding with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature. Anti-counterfeiting warnings in vertical orientation appear along both lateral margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Steinbach am Ziehberg 50 50 L. Haase Linz |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type proliferated after the First World War when severe coin shortages — driven by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar economic chaos — forced individual municipalities to print their own small-denomination emergency scrip. Steinbach am Ziehberg is a small Upper Austrian village, and its 1920 issues are among hundreds of such hyper-local emissions that briefly substituted for official coinage before the Austrian National Bank stabilised the lower denominations.
L. Haase of Linz produced many Upper Austrian municipal Notgeld pieces during this period. The JPR1024 series for Steinbach covers both the 10 and 50 Heller values.