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50 Heller Gross-Siegharts
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gross-Siegharts (Market Town of Gross-Siegharts) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Central circular vignette contains a detailed line-engraved view of Gross-Siegharts castle with crenellated towers set against a clouded sky. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large bold figures at left and right flanking the vignette, with the inscription 'FÜNFZIG HELLER' along the upper border. Ornate Art Nouveau scrollwork and radiating line patterns fill the corners and lower register, with the issuer inscription 'MARKTGEMEINDE GROSS-SIEGHARTS' in bold block lettering along the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN SIGILL DES MARKTS GROSSEN-SIGHARTS UNTER DER ENNS DER MARKTGEMEINDE GROSS-SIEGHARTS WELCHE DIESEN SCHEIN VOM 15.-31. DEZ. 1920 IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELD EINLÖST. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER VIZE-BÜRGERMEISTER: DER GESCHF. GEMEINDERAT: DIE NACHAHMUNG WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 DRUCK: BUSCHEN, WAIDHOFEN A.D. TH. 50 50 |
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Gross-Siegharts is a small market town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and this note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. The postwar coin shortage was severe enough that hundreds of municipalities printed their own small-denomination emergency paper, often contracting local print shops rather than established security printers. Druckerei Buschen in nearby Waidhofen an der Thaya was a regional commercial printer — not a specialist in fiduciary work — which is exactly what you'd expect at this level of municipal issue.