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80 Heller Neufelden - Bezirksausschuss für Jugendfürsorge

Issuer Bezirksausschuss für Jugendfürsorge Neufelden
Year 1920
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Currency Krone (1918-1921)
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Reverse description Green on cream paper reverse printed in woodcut-style letterpress. A large central vignette portrays a medieval castle complex — identified by the inscription '16 Dürnstein 22' — rendered with fine line-work showing towers, gabled rooftops, and surrounding landscape with hills and vegetation. The denomination '80' appears in stylised Art Nouveau cartouches in the upper-left and upper-right corners. A lower panel framed by floral ornamental borders carries the issuer name and the year date repeated on both sides of 'Neufelden o.ö.'
Reverse lettering 80
16 Dürnstein 22
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1920 Neufelden o.ö. 1920
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Neufelden is a small market town in Upper Austria, and in 1920 the acute shortage of small change across Austria prompted even highly localized administrative bodies to issue emergency currency. The Bezirksausschuss für Jugendfürsorge — a district youth welfare committee — is among the more unusual issuing authorities in the Austrian Notgeld corpus. Social welfare offices issuing their own emergency paper is not unheard of in this period, but it remains far less common than municipal or savings bank issues, and raises the question of whether proceeds or float were directed toward welfare funding.

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