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50 Heller Stössing
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stössing (Municipality of Stössing) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with a decorative scalloped border frame enclosing the denomination inscription in Gothic script at upper left and a detailed countryside vignette at right, showing the parish church of Stössing with its pointed steeple set among trees and a winding path. The left field carries the issuing authority inscription and two manuscript facsimile signatures with their respective titles below the denomination heading. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Hittinger (Bürgermeister) and Dr. Ortner and Ant. Blumauer (Vize-Bürgermeister / Gemeinderat) |
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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.