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10 Heller Wachau - Mitter Arnsdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau (Market Town of Spitz on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-purple on cream paper, the obverse centres on a landscape vignette of the village of Mitter Arnsdorf as seen from across the Danube, with a church tower, riverside trees, and terraced hillside vineyards rendered in fine line illustration. Ornate foliate scrollwork with grape-cluster motifs frames the vignette on either side, while bold Gothic-script denomination numerals '10' appear in the upper corners flanking the header inscription 'HELLER'. Below the vignette a banner cartouche reads 'Mitten Arnsdorf' above the large Gothic-lettered legend 'Wachauer Notgeld'; the designer and printer credits appear in small type at the lower left and right margins respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 HELLER 10 Mitten Arnsdorf Wachauer Notgeld Entwurf: Prof. Ch. Tomschik, Krems a/D Eduard Sieger, Wien |
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One of hundreds of Notgeld issues that flooded rural Austria between 1919 and 1922, this Wachau piece was printed by Eduard Sieger in Vienna to a design by Professor Ch. Tomschik of Krems — a pairing that reflects the quietly professional infrastructure behind what is often dismissed as emergency scrip. The Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau, a small wine-growing community on the Danube's north bank, issued these notes partly out of genuine small-denomination shortage and partly capitalizing on collector demand that had already turned Notgeld into a minor industry by 1920.
The Jaksc/Pick suffix "IIc" denotes a specific color or paper variant within the series — a distinction that matters more to specialists than the casual buyer tends to realize.