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50 Heller Sierning
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sierning (Municipality of Sierning) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and green on cream paper, with a decorative dotted border enclosing the entire design. The heading reads 'GEMEINDE GUTSCHEIN SIERNING' in bold Gothic lettering across the top, with the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' rendered in large ornate Fraktur script against a green underprint panel. Below, a two-line guarantee text in German script states that the Municipality of Sierning pledges its entire communal assets, followed by two manuscript facsimile signatures — those of the Finanzreferent (Finance Officer) and the Bürgermeister (Mayor). A central oval vignette at the foot presents a panoramic view of Sierning with the church tower visible among the townscape, flanked by green guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral '50', with 'FÜNFZIG HELLER' repeated in the side borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Sierning gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 60.000 Kronen aus (G.A.B. vom 20. März 1920). Diese Gutscheine werden bis 1. Juli 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Nachahmung wird bestraft 50 Heller |
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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.