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10 Heller Sierning
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sierning (Municipality of Sierning) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown ink, the reverse centres on a circular vignette in an Art Nouveau style illustrating a rural labourer resting beneath a tree with an industrial smokestacked facility visible in the background. Flanking the vignette on left and right are stylised floral ornaments. Text panels to either side of the vignette record the total issue limit and redeemability terms, and the denomination '10 Heller' and 'Heller 10' appears in bold Gothic letterpress along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Sierning gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 60.000 K aus GAB vom 20 März 1920 Diese Gutscheine werden bis 1 Juli 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Nachahmung wird bestraft. 10 Heller Heller 10 |
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Sierning is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it was forced into the notgeld business by a catastrophic shortage of small change following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These local emergency issues were printed in enormous variety across the country — Emil Priebel was a regional printer who handled several such commissions, operating well below the tier of the major Viennese printing houses.
The JPR0995c designation indicates this is one of multiple denominations in the Sierning series, each issued under municipal authority rather than any banking institution. Redemption was theoretically guaranteed by the issuing commune, a promise worth exactly as much as the commune's finances at the time.