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50 Heller Sitzenberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Sitzenberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Sitzenberg 50 50 Heller Kassenschein |
| Reverse description | The reverse is set within an Art Nouveau-influenced border of ribbon-tied garlands and bow ornaments at the corners, printed in dark green on cream paper. At the top centre, a decorative cartouche with a scallop shell motif frames a shield bearing the initial 'S', serving as the municipal emblem. The central field carries the redemption text in Gothic Fraktur script, the issuing date 'Sitzenberg, 30. April 1920', the mayoral title 'Der Bürgermeister' with a manuscript signature, and a counterfeiting warning at the base. |
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Sitzenberg is a small Lower Austrian municipality — today part of Sitzenberg-Reidling — and like hundreds of Austrian communes it resorted to printing its own emergency small change during the postwar Notgeld period, when metal coinage had essentially vanished from circulation and the central government could not keep up with demand. These hyperlocal issues were legal under Austrian emergency provisions and circulated almost exclusively within the issuing community.
F.F. Hofecker designed a number of Austrian Notgeld issues during this period. Whether printing was handled locally or contracted out to a regional press is not documented in the standard references for this piece.