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10 Heller Wachau - St Michael
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Eduard Sieber, Wien |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper and is entirely typographic in character, enclosed within a decorative dotted border. The heading 'WACHAUER NOTGELD.' is set between the flanking denomination numerals '10' at upper left and right. Below, a block of justified German text sets out the legal guarantee clause of the Marktgemeinde Spitz a./D., followed by the anti-counterfeiting warning 'NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT.' Three signature lines at the foot bear the titles Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and 1. Geschäftsf. Gem.-Rat, each with a manuscript signature. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 WACHAUER NOTGELD. 10 DIE MARKTGEMEINDE SPITZ A./D. HAFTET MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEG-LICHEN VERMÖGEN FÜR DIE VERBINDLICHKEIT, DIESEN SCHEIN BIS 30. SEPT. 1920 IN ZAHLUNG ZU NEHMEN UND IN DER ZEIT VOM 15. BIS 30. SEPT. 1920 GEGEN PERSÖNLICHE VORWEISUNG BEI DER GEMEINDEKASSE IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINZULÖSEN. NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT. VIZEBÜRGER-MEISTER: BÜRGERMEISTER: 1. GESCHÄFTSF. GEM.-RAT: |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type occupies a peculiar administrative niche: issued not by a bank or national authority but by a local market commune, Spitz an der Donau, filling the severe coin shortage that persisted in Austria well into the early 1920s. The 1920 date places this firmly in the second wave of Notgeld production, when many communities shifted from purely functional emergency scrip to more elaborately designed collector issues — a distinction that matters for understanding surviving populations. These later notes were often printed in larger quantities and retained unspent, which paradoxically makes heavily circulated examples harder to source than pristine ones.
Eduard Sieber of Vienna was a small commercial printer regularly engaged for provincial Notgeld contracts, not one of the prestige houses. Designer Rudolf Weber was local to Spitz itself.