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50 Heller Sparbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sparbach (Municipality of Sparbach, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a two-colour scheme of deep carmine and teal, with a decorative border of stylised columns and foliate vine ornaments framing the central vignette. The central scene reproduces a village genre composition after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's painting 'Rückkehr von der Kirchweih' (Return from the Parish Fair), rendered in fine letterpress line work and showing a crowd of villagers, including children and women in traditional Austrian folk dress, returning through a rustic courtyard with farm buildings and a church tower in the background. The denomination '50' appears in circular cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the title 'Heller' in large Gothic script across the top, and the issuer inscription in cursive script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in teal-blue, with a dense guilloche-style hatched border running around the full perimeter. The centre of the note carries a redemption text in German blackletter (Fraktur) script, followed by three printed signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister, the Bürgermeister, and the Finanzreferent, each with a handwritten facsimile signature. The printer's imprint and edition number appear in small roman type along the lower margin. |
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Sparbach is a tiny village in the Helenental valley southwest of Baden bei Wien, and its 1920 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the currency disruptions of the late imperial period left small change almost entirely absent from circulation. The commune had no banking infrastructure — issuing its own emergency scrip was simply the practical solution to conducting local trade.
F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled a number of small municipal Notgeld commissions during this period. A workaday printer, not a prestige house.