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10 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau (Market Town of Spitz on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted notgeld printed in Fraktur script throughout, with a central panoramic vignette of the riverside townscape of Mitter-Arnsdorf as seen from the Danube, with a church spire and buildings reflected along the waterfront. The heading 'Wachauer Notgeld' arches across the top above the locality name 'Mitter-Arnsdorf.', while the denomination '10 Heller' appears in framed cartouches at lower left and right flanking the issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. D.' and the validity date 'Giltig bis 30. September 1920.' |
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| Obverse lettering | Wachauer Notgeld Mitter-Arnsdorf. Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. D. Giltig bis 30. September 1920. 10 Heller |
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Spitz an der Donau is a small wine-producing town in the Wachau valley, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the economic dislocation of 1918–1920. With the new Republic of Austria struggling to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation, thousands of municipalities — many of them tiny — printed their own emergency paper to bridge the gap. Spitz was among the smaller communities to do so, which makes surviving examples less common than the better-known urban issues from Vienna or Graz.
The Heller denomination itself was already a dying unit by 1920, effectively phased out by hyperinflation within two years of this note's issue.