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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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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with an ornate foliate and architectural border frame enclosing the issuing authority text in Gothic script. A central oval vignette at left presents a town gate or tower motif, while the surrounding text states the conditions of issue per resolution of 6 June 1920, referencing a total issue of 25,000 Kronen. The lower left margin carries the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzl. bestraft,' with a manuscript signature of the Vorstand at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau gibt laut Beschluss vom 6. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 25000 Kraus aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein bis 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe bei der Marktcommune kasse in gesetzl. Bargeld einzulösen. Der Vorstand. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzl. bestraft. |
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St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market commune on the western shore of the Attersee in Upper Austria. This 99 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921, when the post-imperial monetary system collapsed badly enough that even minor rural municipalities were forced to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden served several surrounding communities during this period, lending the regional issues a certain typographic consistency.
The denomination itself — 99 Heller rather than a round figure — was deliberate: notes below 1 Krone technically fell under different redemption obligations, a minor regulatory arbitrage that dozens of Austrian communes quietly exploited.