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99 Heller St. Georgen im Attergau
| Issuer | Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper in a decorative Jugendstil letterpress style, the obverse carries an ornate scrollwork border enclosing the full text of the note. To the left, an oval cartouche contains the municipal coat of arms of St. Georgen im Attergau, rendered as a detailed vignette with Saint George on horseback set within a turreted shield, surrounded by foliate decoration. The issuing authority text and redemption conditions appear in Gothic Kurrent script to the right, with a facsimile signature of the Vorstand at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left plain on the cream paper stock consistent with locally issued Austrian Notgeld of this period. |
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St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities during 1919–1921, it issued emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation following Austria's post-war economic collapse. The 99 Heller denomination is one of the odder values in the notgeld canon; most issuers stuck to round figures, and the 99 was sometimes chosen to avoid rounding conventions or to squeeze within a price-control threshold.
These local Austrian issues were printed in small runs, often by regional jobbing printers with no security printing experience. Paper quality and ink adhesion vary considerably across the series.