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50 Heller Sittendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sittendorf (Municipality of Sittendorf) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für Heller 50 Heller Gemeinde Sittendorf |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in violet-brown, dominated by an elaborate lace-pattern guilloche border with circular rosette ornaments at the corners and midpoints. The numeral '50' is set at the top centre within the guilloche surround, below which a block of text in Gothic script states the redemption conditions. Three facsimile signature lines appear in the lower portion under the titles 'Bürgermst.', 'Gem. Rat', and 'Fin.-Ref.' respectively, and the printer's imprint 'Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III.' is printed in small type at the very foot of the note. |
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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.