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20 Heller Senftenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Senftenberg (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, unprinted background, bearing a six-line patriotic verse in Gothic Fraktur script enclosed within a rectangular border of small circular ornaments in the upper portion. Below, a prose statement in Fraktur declares the issue authority and guarantee of the notes by the market community's assets. The series designation 'Serie II.' is printed in the lower left corner. |
| 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 II. |
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Austrian Notgeld at the municipal level proliferated rapidly after 1918, as the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to fill a coin shortage that the new republic couldn't address fast enough. Senftenberg, a small market commune in Lower Austria, issued this 20 Heller note under that same pressure — not as a novelty collector piece, which some Notgeld became, but as a genuine stopgap for everyday small transactions.
The JPR0993c designation within the Jaksch catalog suggests this is one of several distinct types from Senftenberg's 1920 issue, differentiated by color, paper variant, or serial detail rather than denomination alone.