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50 Heller Senftenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Senftenberg (Market Town of Senftenberg, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on cream paper, the obverse is divided into a wider left panel and a narrower right stub. The left panel carries a central arch-framed vignette of a panoramic landscape view of Senftenberg with castle ruins on a rocky hillside, surrounded by an ornate foliate border with vine and grape motifs; octagonal denomination cartouches bearing '50' and 'Heller' flank the vignette at left and right respectively. Below the vignette, the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' appears alongside three facsimile signature lines for the Oberbürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. The right stub contains a circular '50' denomination medallion within a wreath at top, a heraldic shield vignette with a tower motif at centre, and the text 'Marktgemeinde Senftenberg im Kremstale am 15. Mai 1920.' below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on plain cream paper, the reverse is unframed save for a central rectangular panel edged with a dotted pearl border, within which a six-line German patriotic verse is set in Gothic blackletter script. Below the panel, a three-line legal text in Gothic script states the municipality's liability guarantee for the notes. The series designation 'Serie II.' appears at the lower left in Roman type. |
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Senftenberg is a small market town in the Kremstal valley, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded rural Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Municipal authorities, down to the smallest Marktgemeinde, were legally permitted to issue their own emergency fractional currency to keep local trade moving. Most were printed in short runs by regional printers.
The JPR0993c designation within the Jaksch catalogue suggests this is one of at least three variants in the Senftenberg series — likely distinguished by color, paper stock, or a minor typographic difference.