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50 Heller Sittendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sittendorf (Municipality of Sittendorf) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1001a-50 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in violet-brown and green on plain paper, enclosed within an ornate letterpress border with chain and foliate motifs. A central green vignette presents a view of the local parish church amid dense foliage, rendered in a scenic lithographic style. The denomination numeral '50' appears in a circular cartouche at the top centre, flanked by ribbon banners inscribed 'Heller' on either side, with the legend 'Gutschein für' arched above and the issuer inscription 'Gemeinde Sittendorf' set in bold Gothic lettering at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeinde Sittendorf innerhalb 14 Tagen nach Verlautbarung in der Tagespresse in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Bürgermst. Gem. Rat Fin.-Ref. Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III. |
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Sittendorf is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it was forced to print its own emergency money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Gemeinde series from this period was a direct response to the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coinage from circulation, hoarded by a public that had stopped trusting the krone's future. F. Seitenberg, based in Vienna's third district, was one of several small commercial printers that handled these local contracts, producing runs that were often in the hundreds rather than thousands.
The JPR1001a designation suggests this is the earliest documented variant — worth noting for collectors since Sittendorf issues are infrequently traded and attribution between variants can be unreliable without the Jaksc reference.