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40 Heller Hainburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hainburg an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0337a-40 |
| Obverse description | Green and black Notgeld note with an ornate border of scrollwork and repeated denomination numerals '40' at each corner. A central rectangular vignette carries a letterpress townscape of Hainburg an der Donau viewed across the Danube, with the hilltop castle ruins rising above the town and a church steeple visible below. Below the vignette, bold Gothic lettering reads the issuer and denomination, flanked at lower left by a small municipal arms vignette; two manuscript signatures appear at the foot for the Gemeinderat and Vizebürgermeister respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER STADTGEMEINDE HAINBURG ÜBER 40 HELLER. ZUR LINDERUNG DER KLEINGELDNOT GIBT DIE GEMEINDE HAINBURG KASSENSCHEINE BIS ZUM GESAMTBETRAGE VON 90.000 KRONEN AUS. DIE KASSENSCHEINE SIND UNVERZINSLICH, WERDEN VON DER GEMEINDE HAINBURG BIS 31. DEZEMBER IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN, UND IN DER ZEIT VOM 1. BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINGELÖST. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES KASSENSCHEINES WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT. |
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Hainburg an der Donau was among the hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced into emergency paper money issuance after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left ordinary coinage effectively unavailable. These locally-issued Notgeld pieces — denominated in Heller at a moment when the Heller itself was already economically marginal — were printed and distributed under no central oversight, which is precisely why survival rates and printing quality vary so dramatically between issues from neighboring towns.
The JPR0337a designation places this within Jaksch's Austrian municipal series. Hainburg examples are not among the more frequently encountered Lower Austrian Notgeld issues in the current market.