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20 Heller Siezenheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Siezenheim (Municipality of Siezenheim) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress reverse centred on a white vignette by artist Hutter, in which a bearded, armoured figure evoking an allegorical or mythological warrior is seated between two ravens alongside a heraldic shield, set against a stylised mountain landscape rendered in fine line work. The denomination '20' appears at the upper left of the vignette panel with 'Heller' to the right, and the issuer inscription 'Gemeinde Siezenheim' with a large '20 Heller' below the vignette. A continuous verse text in blackletter script runs along all four margins, with the '3. Auflage' (third issue) notation below the lower-left corner. |
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| Signature(s) | Leonhard Eist (Bürgermeister), Barth. Retsch, Jos. Obermeier and Mich. Allerberger (Gemeinderäte) |
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Siezenheim is a small village near Salzburg, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These hyperlocal issues were produced in tiny quantities for purely practical reasons: there was simply nothing smaller in circulation to make change. The designer credit "Hutter" is known from other regional Salzburg Notgeld, though the exact printing arrangement for Siezenheim's notes has not been definitively established.
Four signatories authenticated this note — the Bürgermeister and three named Gemeinderäte — which was typical for issues where the community itself stood behind the paper.