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10 Heller Wachau - Spitz Donauansicht
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau (Market Town of Spitz on the Danube, Lower Austria) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Uncoloured letterpress reverse with a decorative interlaced Art Nouveau ornament at centre dividing the note into upper and lower registers. The upper register carries the denomination panels and issuer name in Gothic script; the lower register contains the legal guarantee text in German, a counterfeiting warning, and three manuscript signatures below printed title lines. |
| Reverse lettering | Wachauer Notgeld. Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. D. 10 Heller 1. Ausgabe. 3. Auflage. Diese Gutscheine sind unverzinslich. Die Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. Donau haftet mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein bis 30. September 1920 in Zahlung zu nehmen und in der Zeit vom 15. bis 30. September 1920 gegen persönliche Vorweisung an der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister: 1. geschäftsf. G.-Rat: |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was produced in vast quantities between 1920 and 1922, when chronic small-coin shortages forced municipalities across the former empire to issue their own emergency fractional currency. Spitz an der Donau, a small wine-producing market town in the Wachau valley, was one of hundreds of Lower Austrian communities that contracted local or regional printers to produce these notes — collectibility was understood from the start, and many Notgeld series were frankly designed as much for the philatelic trade as for actual commerce.
The Jaksc/Pick 1122 reference places this firmly within the documented Lower Austrian municipal series. Whether it saw meaningful circulation or went straight into collector packets is, as with most Wachau Notgeld, difficult to establish.