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10 Heller Seitenstetten
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Seitenstetten (Market Town of Seitenstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on grey-green paper, with a decorative beaded border framing the entire note. The denomination 'Zehn Heller' is set in large Gothic script flanking a central numeral '10' within a rectangular cartouche. Below, a multi-line text block in German script states the legal authorization for the Notgeld issue dated 7 April 1920, noting redemption in December 1920. At centre-lower, a circular vignette contains the municipal coat of arms of Seitenstetten surrounded by foliate and rope ornament; to the right appears the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister (Zwack). |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Seitenstetten. Zehn 10 Heller Die Marktgemeinde Seitenstetten gibt laut Sitzungsbeschluss vom 7.IV.1920 Notgeld bis 20.000 Kronen heraus, haftet dafür mit ihrem Vermögen und löst die Gutscheine im Dezember 1920 in gesetzl. Geld ein. Der Bürgermeister Zwack Emil Priegel, Steyr |
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Seitenstetten is a small market town in Lower Austria, best known for its Benedictine abbey. This 10 Heller note is an example of Austrian Notgeld — the emergency small-denomination scrip issued by municipalities, savings banks, and local authorities during the severe coin shortage that persisted well after World War I ended. The national government could not supply enough low-value coinage to meet everyday transactional needs, so thousands of Austrian communities printed their own.
Emil Priegel of Steyr was a regional printer serving numerous Upper and Lower Austrian municipalities during this period. The Jaksc reference places this firmly within the documented corpus of Lower Austrian communal issues.