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50 Heller Siezenheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Siezenheim (Municipality of Siezenheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0996c-50 |
| Obverse description | Blue notgeld issued on plain paper, printed entirely in blackletter (Fraktur) script on a blue ground. The large denomination '50 Heller' appears in bold Gothic lettering across the upper portion, with the date and place of issue 'Siezenheim, Salzburg' inscribed beneath. A central oval panel carries the redemption text pledging payment in legal tender by the Gemeinde Siezenheim, followed by the signatures of Bürgermeister Leonhard Eisl and three Gemeinderäte; a warning against counterfeiting appears at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller Gemeinde Siezenheim Deutschland nicht häng an den Baum 3. Auflage. |
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Siezenheim is a small village west of Salzburg, and this 50 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued after the First World War when small coin essentially vanished from circulation. The Gemeinde turned to Zaunrith — a working Salzburg commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house — which accounts for the modest production quality typical of provincial issues in this series. Bürgermeister Leonhard Eisl's signature gives it formal municipal authority, though in practice these circulated as purely local instruments, rarely traveling beyond the parish.