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50 Heller Siezenheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Siezenheim (Municipality of Siezenheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red notgeld printed by letterpress on plain paper, with a serrated border pattern framing all four edges. The denomination '50 Heller' is set in large blackletter script at the top, with the date '15. Juni 1920' and place name 'Siezenheim Salzburg' beneath. A central cartouche in lighter underprint carries the redemption text in Gothic script, below which appear the signatures of the Bürgermeister and three Gemeinderäte, with a counterfeiting warning along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller Gemeinde Siezenheim Deutschland nicht, häng an den Baum Hotter 2. Auflage. |
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Siezenheim is a small village west of Salzburg, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. This 50 Heller note was produced locally by Zaunrith's print shop in Salzburg — a practical choice that kept costs down and turnaround fast. The four signatories include the Bürgermeister and three Gemeinderäte, whose handwritten or facsimile signatures gave the note its legal standing under the community's own authority rather than any central banking framework.
The "b" suffix in the Jaksch reference indicates a variant within the series — likely a color or paper distinction from the "a" type.