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10 Heller Senftenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Senftenberg (Market Town of Senftenberg, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Senftenberg über 10 Heller Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister ist: Der Gemeinderat: Marktgemeinde Senftenberg im Kremstale am 15. Mai 1920 |
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| Reverse lettering | Wo der Strom der Nibelungen Zwischen Rebenhängen zieht, Ward für ew'ge Zeit gesungen Deutscher Treue hohes Lied. Deutsch in Lied und Tat zugleich, Bleibe treu, Deutschösterreich! Zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Marktgemeinde Senftenberg diese Kassenscheine aus und haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem Vermögen. Serie V. Nachdruck verboten. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from the postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system, when small-denomination coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation due to hoarding and metal scarcity. Municipal authorities across Lower Austria stepped in to fill the gap, printing their own emergency scrip in denominations too small to interest counterfeiters and too local to circulate far beyond the issuing town.
Senftenberg, a small Lower Austrian market town in the Krems valley, issued this 10 Heller note as part of a documented series catalogued under Jaksch. The 1920 dating places it in the later wave of Austrian communal Notgeld, by which point the practice was already being wound down nationally.