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50 Heller Kossatz in der Wachau 1920
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kossatz (Market Municipality of Kossatz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Marktgemeinde Kossatz a.d. Donau 50 Heller Die Gemeinde hastet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen u. unbeweglichen Vermögen der Bürgermeister: |
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| Reverse lettering | Durch die Lüfte rauscht ein Mahnen, Immer lauter dringts herein: "Reicht die Hände euch, Germanen An der Donau und am Rhein!" Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Kossatz i.d.W. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösungszeit vom 15. Dezember 1920 bis 31. Dezember 1920. Die Nachahmung wird bestraft. |
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Kossatz, a small wine-producing market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, was among hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced to print their own emergency fractional currency after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coins. These locally issued Notgeld notes — authorized under postwar Austrian emergency legislation — were typically redeemable only within the issuing community, which made them functionally useless beyond a few kilometers.
The 1920 date places this squarely in the second wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld, by which point some communes had begun treating the issues as collectibles as much as currency, producing more elaborate designs in small print runs.