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99 Heller Sittendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sittendorf (Municipality of Sittendorf) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für 99 Heller Heller Gemeinde Sittendorf |
| Reverse description | Monochrome letterpress design in pale green on cream paper, centred on a large ornate cartouche with elaborate lace-like guilloche surround incorporating floral and ribbon elements. The numeral '99' appears at the top of the cartouche. A rectangular text panel within carries the redemption clause in German Gothic script, below which appear three facsimile signature lines with printed role designations 'Bürgermeist.', 'Gem. Rat', and 'Kanzlist.' A small verse in Gothic script occupies a panel in the upper right corner. The printer's imprint 'Lith. u. Druck von F. Geitanborn, Wien III.' appears at the foot of the note. |
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Sittendorf is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued emergency small change — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 99 Heller denomination is deliberately odd, chosen to fall just below the 1 Krone threshold that would have triggered different redemption and tax obligations under Austrian fiscal rules of the period.
Printed by F. Geitanborn in Vienna's third district, a firm known primarily for commercial lithography rather than security printing. That's exactly the point — these were never meant to circulate beyond the parish boundary.