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10 Heller Leiben
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Leiben im Weitentale |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Leiben im Weitentale 10 Heller Gültig bis 31. Dezember 192[0] Leiben am [1920] |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper and carries a central vignette of Schloss Leiben im Weitentale, rendered in fine line engraving style, showing the ruined hilltop castle with smoke rising above rooftops. Flanking text panels carry the municipal guarantee pledge on the left and anti-counterfeiting and redemption notices on the right, with facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister below each panel respectively. The caption 'Schloß Leiben im Weitentale' appears in blackletter along the lower margin, with the designer credit 'Entw: Jos. J. Beyer' at lower right. |
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Leiben is a small market town in Lower Austria's Wachau-adjacent Weitental, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the postwar collapse of the Austrian crown — small emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. The Beyer design credit is typical of the cottage-industry approach to Austrian Notgeld: local artists, schoolteachers, and commercial illustrators produced artwork that was then printed in small regional runs.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a cataloger's error or a data entry artifact — that date is the final day of the Battle of Berlin, years after Austrian municipal Notgeld had ceased to have any meaning. The actual issue period for this series would be 1920.