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20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. Donau (Market Town of Spitz on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Wachauer Notgeld St. Michael. Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. D. Giltig bis 30. September 1920. 20 Heller |
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| Reverse lettering | Wachauer Notgeld. Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. D. 20 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 from the period immediately following World War One, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal authorities issuing their own emergency scrip to cover the acute shortage of small change. Spitz an der Donau, a small wine-producing market town in the Wachau, was one of hundreds of communes that printed local currency between roughly 1918 and 1922 — the practice was technically unauthorized but tacitly tolerated by Vienna.
The 1920 date places this in the second wave of Austrian Notgeld, by which point many issues had become semi-collectible by design, printed in small runs with regional imagery to attract the thriving collector trade rather than serve genuine transactional need.