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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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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0993g-50 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue on cream paper and divided into two panels. The left panel carries the title inscription at the top in Gothic script, followed by a central oval vignette with a panoramic landscape view of the Senftenberg market town set against a hillside with ruins, framed by grape vine borders and flanked by octagonal denomination cartouches reading '50' and 'Heller'. Below the vignette the validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' appears, with three manuscript signature lines for the Oberbürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. The right panel carries a circular wreath medallion with the numeral '50', below which appears the municipal arms of Senftenberg in an ornamental cartouche, and the text 'Marktgemeinde Senftenberg im Kremstale am 15. Mai 1920' in Gothic script. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on cream paper and features a plain, text-based composition. A central dotted rectangular border encloses a six-line patriotic verse in Gothic script. Below, a three-line justification text in larger Gothic type explains the issuance of the notes to alleviate the small-change shortage, with the market town pledging its assets as guarantee. The series designation 'Serie V.' appears at lower left, and the copyright notice 'Nachdruck verboten.' at lower right. |
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Senftenberg is a small market town in the Krems district of Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of the Notgeld issues that flooded rural Austria between 1919 and 1921 when small-denomination coinage simply disappeared from circulation. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities issuing their own emergency paper — legally tolerated, locally redeemed, and often printed in tiny quantities that make individual commune issues genuinely difficult to locate today.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0993g-50 places this within a lettered suffix series, suggesting multiple design variants were issued for Senftenberg, not a single note.