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20 Heller Senftenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Senftenberg (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in red. The central vignette, set within an oval frame, presents a landscape with a hilltop castle ruin above a village, flanked on either side by elaborate grapevine decorations. The denomination '20' appears to the left of the vignette and 'Heller' to the right, while the issuing authority title and validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' are inscribed above and below respectively. Three manuscript signature lines appear at the foot of the note, with printed role designations for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderai. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wo der Strom der Nibelungen Zwischen Rebenhängen zieht, Ward für ew'ge Zeit gesungen Deutscher Treue hohes Lied. Deutsch in Lied und Tat zugleich, Bleibe treu, Deutschösterreich! Zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Marktgemeinde Senftenberg diese Kassenscheine aus und haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem Vermögen. Serie I. |
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Senftenberg is a small market commune in the Krems valley, and this Heller note is a product of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave — the period between roughly 1919 and 1921 when hundreds of municipalities printed their own emergency small-change scrip because coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The national government tolerated rather than authorized these issues, and most were redeemed and destroyed once the supply of small coins recovered, which is why surviving Lower Austrian commune notes in any condition are genuinely uncommon.
At 70 × 55 mm, this is among the smaller municipal issues of the series.