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50 Heller Seitenstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dorf Seitenstetten (Municipality of Seitenstetten Village) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue-grey on cream paper, the reverse presents an elaborate architectural frame of two flanking classical columns with decorative foliate capitals supporting an ornamental top border. Within this frame, a detailed panoramic vignette renders the Stift (abbey) and village of Seitenstetten set against rolling hills. A caption below the vignette reads 'Stift und Dorf Seitenstetten'. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in panels at the lower left and right flanking the central text 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Dorf Seitenstetten' in Gothic script. Designer and printer credits appear at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Stift und Dorf Seitenstetten Gutschein der Gemeinde Dorf Seitenstetten 50 Heller Entwurf: Hans Kozak Druck v. J. Kielar, Amstetten |
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Seitenstetten is a small market town in Lower Austria best known for its Benedictine abbey, and this Heller note is one of the thousands of small-denomination Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian crown after the First World War left local municipalities unable to obtain enough low-denomination coinage to conduct ordinary commerce — metal was scarce, and the new Austrian state could not mint fast enough to fill the gap. Individual communes were effectively forced to print their own.
J. Kielar was a small Amstetten printer, not a specialist security press, which is typical of the emergency nature of the issue. Hans Kozak's design credit is worth noting — many rural Notgeld commissions went to local commercial artists whose names rarely surface anywhere else in the historical record.