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50 Heller Steinerkirchen an der Traun
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinerkirchen an der Traun |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with a decorative vine-leaf border framing the entire face. The left half is occupied by a finely engraved vignette of a Romanesque church tower with a baroque onion dome set against billowing clouds, signed by the artist at lower right. The right panel bears the denomination numeral '50' in a dotted box alongside the Gothic-script legend 'Fünfzig Heller' and the issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Steinerkirchen A.D.T.', with a four-line German verse below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain brown letterpress reverse printed on cream paper, divided into a symmetrical layout with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each of the four corners within ruled rectangular panels. The central field carries a bold '50 HELLER' in a framed cartouche beneath which a stylised floral garland ornament is printed. Flanking text panels state the commune's guarantee of redemption at left, signed by M. Aicher as Gemeinderat, and the redemption deadline of 31 December 1920 with a counterfeiting warning at right, signed by G. Leitner as Bürgermeister. 'GUTSCHEIN' appears in large capitals at both top and bottom centre. |
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Steinerkirchen an der Traun is a small Upper Austrian market commune, and this 50 Heller note is a Notgeld issue — emergency small change printed locally to address the catastrophic coin shortage that plagued Austrian communities during and immediately after the First World War. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden handled a substantial number of these municipal issues for villages throughout the Salzkammergut region, giving the series a certain typographic consistency despite its parochial origins.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places it firmly within the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus. Signatures of both the Gemeinderat and the Bürgermeister were required to give the scrip local legal standing — without them, the note had no claim on municipal authority.