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10 Heller Seitenstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dorf Seitenstetten (Municipality of Seitenstetten Dorf, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld on cream paper. A central vignette depicts the local war memorial (Kriegerdenkmal) inscribed '1914–1918', set within a hatched geometric underprint. Issuer inscription and official text in Gothic script fill the right panel; denomination '10 Heller' appears at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Dorf Seitenstetten Bürgermeister Gemeinderat Kriegerdenkmal 1914–1918 10 Heller |
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Austrian Gemeinde notgeld of this type emerged from a genuine small-change crisis, not a collector scheme — by 1920, coin metal had been stripped out of circulation and ordinary transactions were grinding to a halt in villages that couldn't wait for Vienna to act. Seitenstetten Dorf, a small Lower Austrian parish best known for its Benedictine monastery, issued its own fractional notes under emergency authority granted to municipalities. F. Klelar in nearby Amstetten handled local notgeld printing for several communities in the region, keeping costs down and turnaround fast.
The 1920 date places this firmly in the later wave of Austrian notgeld, after the worst of the immediate postwar disorder but before stabilization made such issues redundant.