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99 Heller St. Georgen an der Gusen
| Issuer | Market Town of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 99 Hellers (0.99) |
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| Obverse lettering | 99 KLEMENS BROSCH LINZ 1920. ZWEITE FASSUNG, ERSTE AUFLAGE (Translation: 99 KLEMENS BROSCH LINZ 1920. Second Version, First Edition) |
| Reverse description | The reverse continues the landscape vignette in green and black, with a field grass motif running across the face. A white text panel overlaid on the design carries the issuing authority's name and edition details in orange and green letterpress, with the denomination numeral '99' centrally placed within the text box. |
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Klemens Brosch was one of the more gifted graphic artists working in Linz in the early twentieth century, and his Notgeld commissions — including this one for Sankt Georgen an der Gusen — are among the few places his work survives in any quantity. He died in 1925 at thirty-four, leaving a small but distinctive body of prints and illustrations.
The note belongs to the Austrian municipal Notgeld wave of 1920, when chronic small-coin shortages forced market towns to issue their own emergency fractions. Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was a modest Upper Austrian community with no particular monetary infrastructure — commissioning Brosch gave the issue a quality well above its face value.