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10 Heller Wachau - Mitter Arnsdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz a./D. (Market Town of Wachau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Eduard Sieger, Wien |
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| Obverse description | Violet-brown notgeld note with ornate Art Nouveau scrollwork borders incorporating stylised grapevine motifs on both lateral margins. A central landscape vignette rendered in fine line engraving presents the village of Mitter Arnsdorf along the Danube, with a church steeple rising above the treeline against a backdrop of the Wachau hills; the denomination '10' appears in bold Gothic numerals at upper left and upper right corners with 'HELLER' in large block letters across the top. A decorative ribbon cartouche below the vignette carries the inscription 'Mitter Arnsdorf', with 'WACHAUER NOTGELD' in large Gothic script across the lower register; the printer's credits 'Entwurf: Prof. Ch. Tomschik, Krems a/D.' and 'Eduard Sieger, Wi[en]' appear at the lower left and lower right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 HELLER Mitter Arnsdorf WACHAUER NOTGELD Entwurf: Prof. Ch. Tomschik, Krems a/D. Eduard Sieger, Wien |
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This note belongs to the vast and chaotic world of Austrian Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued in the immediate postwar years when small coin had all but vanished from circulation. The Marktgemeinde Spitz, a small market town on the Danube in the Wachau valley, commissioned its own series rather than rely on a collapsing central supply. Eduard Sieger in Vienna printed a number of these regional issues, and the involvement of a named designer — Professor Tomschik of Krems — places this above the purely utilitarian end of the Notgeld spectrum.
The Jaksch-Pick reference suffix "IIa" indicates a specific paper or printing variant within the series, a distinction that matters to specialists tracking the full Spitz issue.