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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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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark ink on a pale ground and divided into three vertical panels. The left and right panels each contain a letterpress vignette of a rural agricultural worker in the field — a man sowing seed on the left and a woman harvesting on the right — rendered in a stylised woodcut manner. The central panel carries the issuing terms in German text, a decorative ornamental band, the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird bestraft', and the large denomination numeral '50 Heller' in ornate script. |
| 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 is a small municipality in Upper Austria, roughly five kilometres from Steyr. The note belongs to the vast Notgeld phenomenon that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921, when severe coin shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg economy forced local authorities to print their own fractional currency. Emil Priebel was a Steyr-based printer with no particular distinction in the broader philatelic record — his output was functional, local, and rarely traveled far.
The 50 Heller denomination was among the most commonly issued values in Upper Austrian municipal Notgeld, replacing the hoarded coins that had effectively vanished from daily commerce by 1920.