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50 Heller Steinerkirchen an der Traun
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Steinerkirchen an der Traun |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | RÖMERFUND. STEINERKIRCHEN A·D·T· 1920. 50 HL SALZKAMMERGUT-DRUCKEREI GMUNDEN |
| Signature(s) | M. Aicher (Gemeinderat) and G. Leitner (Bürgermeister) |
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Steinerkirchen an der Traun is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921 when small coin effectively vanished from circulation following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden handled a significant number of these regional emergency issues across the lake district, which accounts for the consistent production quality seen across several neighboring communes.
The dual signatures — Gemeinderat Aicher and Bürgermeister Leitner — authenticate it as a locally authorized instrument rather than a speculative collector piece, though the line between the two blurred quickly as the Notgeld collecting mania took hold across Austria and Germany in exactly this period.