50 Heller Sittendorf

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.