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10 Heller Sigharting
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sigharting (Municipality of Sigharting) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress notgeld printed in dark olive-grey on plain cream paper, centred on a circular vignette rendered in pen-and-ink style showing a castle or manor house with towers and a chapel. The denomination '10' is repeated in oval cartouches at upper left and right, flanked by guilloche leaf-scroll underprint panels carrying 'ZEHN' and 'HELLER' in bold block lettering. A solid dark band along the base bears the issuer name in large white serif capitals. |
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| Reverse lettering | Pirchinger - Wappen Die Gemeinde Sigharting löst diesen Gutschein auf Grund ihres Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 13. Mai 1920 bis zum 31. Oktober 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Der Gemeinderat. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Sigharting is a small village in Upper Austria, and this note is one of thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues that flooded the country between 1919 and 1922 as small change effectively vanished from circulation. The postwar coinage shortage was severe enough that villages with no banking infrastructure whatsoever were printing their own fractional currency — Gemeinde Sigharting among them.
The Jaksch reference places this in the documented Upper Austrian series, but municipal issues at this level were printed in tiny quantities and redeemed locally, which means survivors are disproportionately scarce relative to their historical obscurity.