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50 Heller Steyregg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Steyregg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper, the obverse carries the municipal title 'Stadtgemeinde Steyregg' in Gothic script across the top panel, flanked by the numeral '50' in bold squares at each corner. A letterpress vignette in the lower left depicts a townscape with a church tower and surrounding buildings in a linear engraved style. To the right, a framed central cartouche bears the denomination numeral '50' over which the text 'Gut-Schein über Fünfzig Heller' is set in large decorative Gothic lettering; below, a guarantee text reads 'Die Stadtgemeinde Steyregg haftet für die Verbindlichkeit der Einlösung,' followed by facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß, Wer nie in kummervollen Nächten Auf seinem Bette weinend saß, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte. Gemeindebeschluß vom 6. April 1920. Die Stadtgemeinde Steyregg gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 56.000 Kronen aus. G.-R.-B. 6. April 1920. Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Einlösetermin 1. Dezember bis 31. Dezember 1920. |
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Steyregg is a small market town on the Danube just east of Linz, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in the early 1920s it resorted to printing its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The postwar Habsburg collapse had stripped the monetary system down to paper, and denominations below one Krone became effectively unobtainable in metal form.
These hyper-local issues were produced in tiny quantities for purely functional use within the issuing community. Steyregg's version is about as modest an issuer as the series gets.