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75 Heller Steinkreuz
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Steinkreuz (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green crosshatch underprint on uncoloured paper. Central vignette of two putti flanking a radiating sunburst cartouche bearing the denomination numeral '75' and 'Heller'; a ruined tower silhouette rises above between floral garlands. An orange ribbon banner at top carries the word 'Gutschein' in white script; issuer name 'Ortsgemeinde Steinkreuz' runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Green crosshatch underprint with a central white panel enclosed by an ornate purple cartouche border. The panel contains redemption text in orange letterpress, below which the issuing authority signature line reads 'Der Ortsvorsteher: JOHANN RIEPL'. Edition notation 'Auflage 2/III' appears at lower right outside the cartouche. |
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Austrian notgeld from the chaotic post-WWI period, when municipal and rural communities throughout the former empire issued their own emergency small-denomination paper because metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Steinkreuz is a small community in Upper Austria — the kind of issuer where a single alderman's signature sufficed, here that of Johann Riepl, whose role was almost certainly that of a local mayor or council head rather than any banking officer.
Rural Upper Austrian notgeld at this denomination was produced in tiny quantities and often redeemed quickly within the issuing community itself, which makes survival rates genuinely uneven.