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80 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 two colours: a blue-grey border and frame with decorative column motifs, foliate corner ornaments, and denomination numerals '80' at upper left and right, with the word 'Heller' in large Gothic script across the top. The central vignette, rendered in dark red, reproduces Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's painting 'Rückkehr von der Kirchweih' (Return from the Parish Fair), a rustic scene of villagers, children, and livestock gathered before farm buildings, captioned above the vignette as 'Rückkehr von der Kirchweih / v. F.G. Waldmüller / Sparbacher Motiv'. The lower panel carries the issuer inscription in Gothic script on a light ground. |
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| Obverse lettering | 80 Heller 80 Rückkehr von der Kirchweih v. F.G. Waldmüller Sparbacher Motiv Kassenschein der Gemeinde Sparbach N.Ö. |
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Sparbach is a tiny settlement in the Helenental valley southwest of Baden bei Wien, and its 1920 Notgeld issue reflects just how granular Austria's emergency currency problem had become — individual villages, not just towns, were forced to produce their own small-denomination scrip when the postwar coin shortage made everyday transactions impossible. The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one, suggesting it was designed to fill a specific gap in local circulation rather than follow any standardized series.
F. Seitenberg operated from Vienna's third district and handled numerous small municipal Notgeld contracts during this period. Workmanlike output, not a prestige commission.