Austria. - 100 Banknotes - Various Dates (No reserve price)

Austrian emergency money until 1920.
The Austrian Notgeld emerged during World War I due to a shortage of metallic coinage. Coins were hoarded or used for the war industry, making small denominations scarce. Municipalities, towns, companies, and institutions therefore issued temporary own banknotes.
The first major issues appeared from 1918, especially in Tyrol, including Innsbruck, Kufstein and Kitzbühel. The usual values were 10, 20 and 50 Heller, but higher values also appeared, sometimes up to 100 Kronen. This so-called Großgeld was intended for larger payments.
After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, production rose sharply. In 1919 and especially 1920 hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own emergency money. Upper Austria became an important center in particular. The banknotes were usually valid for only a short time and could be exchanged with the issuing authority.
From 1920 the banknotes increasingly had an artistic and local character. Castles, churches, town halls, landscapes, coats of arms, and historical figures were depicted. Due to the great interest of collectors, special series, color variants, print variants, and other issues also appeared that were sometimes hardly intended for use in payments.
Besides municipal Notgeld there were, among others, Privatnotgeld from companies and shops and Lagergeld for use within certain institutions or closed communities.
Important collecting areas are Tyrol, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria, and Carinthia. For Upper Austria hundreds of municipalities are known. One municipality could also issue dozens of different variants.
1920 marks an important endpoint for a collection, because from the end of that year issuing became increasingly restricted. The Austrian Notgeld from this period is nowadays interesting for both its historical significance and its great artistic and local diversity.
For a comprehensive study the catalogs by Johann Kodnar & Norbert Künstner, Katalog des österreichischen Notgeldes 1914–1924, and the regional catalogs of the Oberösterreichische Landesarchiv are of particular importance.

These are 100 Notgeld banknotes from Austria. They are of varying quality (look at the photos to get a good impression; what you see is what you get). Items cannot be shipped to the United States of America. 7