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50 Heller Steinerkirchen an der Traun
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinerkirchen an der Traun |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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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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| Obverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Steinerkirchen A.D.T. Die Zeiten sind gar wunderbar; O, wie ist dieses Geld so rar. Greif' zu und kauf' ein, Vergiß auf's Einlösen fein SALZKAMMERGUT-DRUCKEREI GMUNDEN |
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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.