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50 Heller Steyr, Issue in colour
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Steyr |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Left vignette presents a sculptural allegorical male figure, rendered in a classical style, raising the red-white-red Austrian tricolour flag; the figure stands on rocky ground and is entwined with floral garlands. To the right, the denomination is set in bold Gothic letterpress within a dotted-pattern panel headed by the issuer inscription 'Stadtgemeinde Steyr – Gutschein', beneath which a block of German-language legal text and two manuscript facsimile signatures appear. The validity date 'Gültig bis 31. März 1921.' is inscribed in the lower margin of the vignette panel. |
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| Reverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Steyr is centred above a vignette of an early automobile, with a factory complex rendered in a linear industrial style to the left and a panoramic city view to the right, together evoking the industrial and civic character of Steyr. |
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Steyr's municipal notgeld of 1920 belongs to the second wave of Austrian local emergency currency — by this point the Stadtgemeinde was issuing deliberately decorative pieces aimed partly at collectors, a practice that had become commercially rational. The "Issue in colour" designation distinguishes this from earlier monochrome printings of the same denomination, reflecting a deliberate production decision rather than a variation caused by supply constraints.
Steyr was a significant industrial centre, home to the arms and bicycle manufacturer that would later become Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and the municipality had both the administrative capacity and the economic motivation to manage its own small-denomination liquidity during the postwar coin shortage.