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50 Heller Sierning
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sierning (Municipality of Sierning) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE GUTSCHEIN SIERNING für Fünfzig Heller Die Gemeinde Sierning haftet für die Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem gesamten Gemeinde-Vermögen. Der Finanzreferent Der Bürgermeister 50 FÜNFZIG HELLER |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green on cream paper and divided into three vertical panels. The left panel contains a vignette of a male agricultural worker in a field, carrying a sack over his shoulder. The right panel mirrors this composition with a female figure holding a scythe and a basket, also set in a rural landscape. The central panel carries a block of German text citing the municipal resolution of 20 March 1920 authorizing the issue of vouchers up to a total of 60,000 Kronen, redeemable in legal tender until 1 July 1921, followed by the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird bestraft'. Below this text, the denomination '50 Heller' is printed in large decorative numerals and Fraktur script. |
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Sierning's 50 Heller notgeld was issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria in the aftermath of the First World War and the dissolution of the Habsburg monetary system. Municipal authorities across Upper Austria were essentially forced into issuing their own emergency currency — the central government could not produce low-denomination coin fast enough to meet local demand, and ordinary commercial transactions were grinding to a halt without it.
Emil Prietzel of Steyr handled a considerable volume of local notgeld production for the surrounding region during this period, making him one of the more prolific small printers serving Upper Austrian municipalities in 1920.