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10 Heller Wachau - Wösendorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau (Market Town of Spitz on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted letterpress note within a double-rule border. Denomination numerals '10 Heller' appear in the upper left and right corners. A panoramic vignette of the village of Wösendorf extends across the lower half, with rolling vineyard hills in the background. Validity inscription and village name printed below the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wachauer Notgeld. Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. D. 10 Heller 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 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister: 1. geschäftsf. G.-Rat: |
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Austrian Notgeld of the 1920 series occupies a curious commercial niche — these locally issued emergency notes were technically currency substitutes, but the Wachau region's issues were almost immediately collected as souvenirs by tourists passing through the Danube valley. Spitz an der Donau was one of dozens of small Austrian municipalities that printed their own fractional notes after the postwar coin shortage made small change functionally impossible to obtain through normal banking channels.
The Jaksc catalog number places this firmly within the Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) municipal Notgeld classification. Many Wachau issues were printed in multiple color variants, and Wösendorf — a small wine-producing village within the Spitz market district — appears as a specific place designation rather than merely a thematic reference.