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10 Heller Schönbühel

Issuer Marktgemeinde Schönbühel an der Donau
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Currency Krone (1918-1921)
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Reverse description Reverse is unprinted, plain cream-coloured paper with no design, text, or ornamentation, consistent with standard Austrian Notgeld emergency currency production of the period.
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Signature(s) L. Trakowanitsch (Bürgermeister)
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Schönbühel an der Donau is a small market town on the Wachau stretch of the Danube, and like hundreds of similar Austrian municipalities it resorted to locally printed Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. These emergency issues were a practical stopgap — the central authorities simply could not produce enough low-denomination coin to meet everyday commerce, so the burden fell to Gemeinden and Sparkassen to fill the gap themselves.

F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled a number of these municipal commissions. Bürgermeister Trakowanitsch's signature validates the note as an official obligation of the market commune, not a private scrip.

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