Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Heller Stössing
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stössing (Municipality of Stössing) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse printed in dark green Gothic script, with five lines of legal text in justified paragraphs stating the purpose of issue, the redemption guarantee, the expiry date, and a counterfeiting warning. The printer's imprint appears in small capitals at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Stössing, N.-Ö., Gutscheine aus. Die Gemeinde Stössing haftet für dieses Notgeld und löst selbes nur bis 30. September 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde ein. Jede Nachahmung wird bestraft. Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 16. Mai 1920. BOMMER, ST PÖLTEN |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Stössing is a village in Lower Austria — population well under a thousand even today — which makes this Notgeld issue a genuine curiosity. During Austria's acute small-change crisis of 1919–1920, hundreds of municipalities printed emergency Heller notes simply because coin metal had been stripped away by war procurement and postwar economic collapse. Bommer in St. Pölten handled a substantial volume of such local commissions, functioning as a regional workhorse printer for Lower Austrian Gemeinden too small to attract the Vienna houses.
Three signatures authenticate this note: the Bürgermeister, a vice-mayor, and a Gemeinderat — unusually heavy officialdom for a denomination this small.