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50 Heller Sindelburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sindelburg (Municipality of Sindelburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in blue on cream paper, carries a decorative outer border of interlocking ornamental chain-link motifs and a lower wave-pattern guilloche band. Within a rectangular inner frame, a vignette at left portrays a standing female allegorical figure holding a flag or staff, set against a rising sun and open landscape. To the right of the vignette, a text block in block lettering states the redemption pledge and anti-counterfeiting warning. The denomination '50 HELLER 50' is set in bold lettering across the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | DIE GEMEINDE SINDELBURG LÖST DIESEN SCHEIN BIS ZUM 31. DEZ 1920 EIN. BIO NACHAHMEN IST VERBOTEN 50 HELLER 50 |
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Sindelburg is a small village in Lower Austria, administratively part of the Sankt Peter in der Au district. This note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip — that flooded the country between 1919 and 1921 when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left ordinary commerce without usable low-denomination coinage. Thousands of Gemeinden printed their own, and local printers across the region did brisk business filling the gap.
C. Queiser in nearby Amstetten was a regional job printer, not a specialist security press. Authentication was essentially trust-based — the municipality's stamp and signatures stood in for anything more sophisticated.