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10 Heller Senftenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Senftenberg (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a central text block enclosed within a decorative border of repeated circular ornaments, containing a patriotic verse in Gothic blackletter script. Below the bordered panel, a two-line legal notice in Gothic script states the issuing authority and the municipality's liability for the notes. Series designation 'Serie IV.' appears at lower left, and the notice 'Nachdruck verboten' at lower right. |
| 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 IV. Nachdruck verboten. |
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Austrian Notgeld at the municipal level proliferated after the First World War when the chronic shortage of small change — driven by coin hoarding and metal scarcity — forced towns and market communes to print their own emergency fractional currency. Senftenberg, a small Lower Austrian market community, issued this 10 Heller note under that same pressure in 1920, well into the period when such local scrip had become almost routine across the region.
The JPR0993f designation within the Jaksch catalog places it among the later Notgeld issues, by which point the Austrian crown itself was already in accelerating collapse.