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10 Heller Sittendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sittendorf (Municipality of Sittendorf) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Dark purple letterpress border with stylized Art Nouveau foliate and chain ornaments framing a central octagonal vignette printed in blue-green, showing the Sittendorf parish church tower amid trees. At the top, a banner reads 'Gutschein für' flanked by ribbon scrolls inscribed 'Heller' on each side with the numeral '10' in a circular cartouche at centre. The issuer name 'Gemeinde Sittendorf' appears in Gothic script within a decorated panel at the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeinde Sittendorf innerhalb 14 Tagen nach Verlautbarung in der Tagespresse in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Bürgermst. Gem. Rat: Fin.-Ref. Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III. |
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Sittendorf is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These municipal issues were a practical stopgap, not a monetary experiment; coins had been hoarded or melted, and the state couldn't keep up with demand for low-denomination currency.
Printed by F. Seitenberg in Vienna's third district, a firm that handled a number of these local commissions. The JPR1001c designation places this within a documented series variant for Sittendorf — the "c" suffix typically indicates a distinct print run or paper stock difference within the same denomination.