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20 Heller Wachau - Weissenkirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Eduard Sieger, Wien |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Wachauer Notgeld Gutschein der Markt-Gemeinde Spitz. Weissenkirchen a/S. Donau Giltig bis 30. September 1920. Entwurf: Malerin Liesl Kinzel, Wien Eduard Sieger, Wien |
| Reverse description | Plain uncoloured reverse with a bold outer border of square ornamental blocks enclosing a dotted inner frame. The heading 'WACHAUER NOTGELD.' and sub-legend 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE SPITZ AN DER DONAU.' appear in large Gothic capitals at the top, flanked by the numeral '20' at each side. Below, a block of Gothic text sets out the legal guarantee clause, followed by the anti-counterfeiting warning 'NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT.' Three signature lines are ruled at the foot, headed respectively 'VIZEBÜRGER-MEISTER:', 'BÜRGERMEISTER:' and '1. GESCHÄFTSF. GEM.-RAT:', each bearing a manuscript signature. |
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Part of the remarkable Notgeld wave that swept rural Austria in the early 1920s, this note was issued by the market municipality of Spitz an der Donau when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from everyday commerce. The Wachau region produced some of the most artistically ambitious emergency currency in the Austrian corpus, with local communities commissioning genuine designers rather than relying on printers' stock templates — Liesl Kinzel's involvement here is characteristic of that approach.
Eduard Sieger in Vienna handled a substantial volume of provincial Notgeld printing during this period. The IIc suffix in the Jaksch/Pick reference indicates a specific paper or printing variant within the type, worth distinguishing from superficially identical impressions.