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20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau (Market Town of Spitz on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Wachauer Notgeld Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Spitz a. d. D. Wösendorf. Giltig bis 30. September 1920. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on pale green paper and divided into an upper denomination panel and a lower text block separated by a small Art Nouveau ornamental interlace vignette. The denomination '20 Heller' is set in Gothic blackletter within ruled corner boxes at upper left and right, with the issuer title 'Wachauer Notgeld / Gutschein der Marktgemeinde / Spitz a. d. D.' centred above. Below the ornament, the edition line reads '1. Ausgabe.' at left and '3. Auflage.' at right, followed by a full redemption text in German Gothic script and three manuscript signatures beneath the printed titles 'Vizebürgermeister:', 'Bürgermeister:', and '1. geschäftsf. G.-Rat:'. |
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Spitz an der Donau is a small wine-producing town in the Wachau valley, and this 20 Heller note is a piece of Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued across Austria and Germany in vast quantities between roughly 1918 and 1922, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without adequate coin for everyday transactions. Hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden printed their own, and the series from Spitz is among the more locally flavored examples from Lower Austria.
By 1920 the Heller was already collapsing in value. Within three years it would be abolished entirely under the Austrian currency reform of 1923, making these notes obsolete almost from the moment of issue.