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20 Heller Sparbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sparbach (Municipality of Sparbach, Lower Austria) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and red-brown on cream paper. A central vignette reproduces a scene after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's painting 'Rückkehr von der Kirchweih' (Return from the Parish Fair) with a Sparbach motif, rendered in red-brown letterpress within a rectangular frame flanked by decorative blue pillar ornaments. The denomination '20' appears in circular cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the large Gothic-script legend 'Heller' across the top in a dark blue banner, and the issuer inscription 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Sparbach N.Ö.' in stylised script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue on cream paper within a chain-link ornamental border. The central text block carries the redemption clause in Gothic script, flanked below by three printed facsimile signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Finanzreferent respectively. The printer's imprint 'Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III.' and the edition designation '2. Auflage' appear in small type along the lower margin outside the border. |
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Sparbach is a tiny rural commune in the Wienerwald district of Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly small Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency small change — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The F. Seitenberg firm in Vienna's third district handled printing for numerous such local issues, working at volume during the 1920–1922 peak of Austrian municipal Notgeld production.
Issues from villages this small were printed in correspondingly limited quantities and rarely traveled far. Redemption rates were high once coin circulation normalized, which kept survivors scarce.