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50 Heller Steinwald
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Steinwald |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER ORTSGEMEINDE STEINWALD. 50 HELLER 50 |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gutscheine werden 4 Wochen nach Verlautbarung in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst - Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft DER ORTSVORSTEHER: FRANZ HIMMELBAUER 1. Auflage I |
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Steinwald is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1919 onward. The Ortsgemeinde (local commune) rather than any banking institution was the issuing authority here, which was entirely typical of the rural Notgeld phenomenon: mayors and parish councils stepping in where the monetary system had simply broken down.
Franz Himmelbauer's signature as the responsible local official is the only authentication these notes carried. No serial numbers, no watermark protection — just the weight of local trust in a community small enough that counterfeiting would have been pointless.