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10 Heller Sparbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sparbach (Municipality of Sparbach, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress border with pillar motifs frames a central ochre-toned vignette after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's painting 'Rückkehr von der Kirchweih' (Return from the Church Fair), a Sparbach motif, showing a crowd of villagers in rural dress. The denomination '10 Heller 10' appears in the upper register in bold script against a blue guilloche ground. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeinde Sparbach innerhalb 14 Tagen nach Verlautbarung in der Tagespresse in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Der Finanzreferent: Lith. u. Druck von F. Seltenburg, Wien III. |
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Sparbach is a tiny settlement in the Wienerwald, southwest of Vienna — the kind of community that in 1920 had little reason to exist in a numismatic catalog at all. It issued Heller notgeld for the same reason hundreds of similarly obscure Austrian municipalities did: the postwar coinage shortage was acute enough that even villages needed to print their own fractional currency. F. Seltenburg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled a number of these small municipal commissions during the notgeld peak years.
Lower Austrian Heller notgeld from this period survives in greater quantities than the face values suggest — collectors hoarded them almost immediately.