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50 Heller Senftenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Senftenberg (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Olive-brown letterpress Notgeld note enclosed within a decorative vine-leaf border. At centre, an oval vignette presents a panoramic view of Senftenberg with castle ruins on a hilltop above the Kremstal valley, flanked by octagonal denomination cartouches reading '50' and 'Heller'; a separate right-hand panel carries the numeral '50' in a wreath roundel above the municipal coat of arms. Inscriptions in Gothic blackletter include the issuer legend across the upper field and a validity date below the vignette, with three manuscript signature lines for the Oberbürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper reverse printed in dark brown Fraktur letterpress within a dotted-rule rectangular frame. The upper portion carries a six-line patriotic verse in Gothic blackletter script, centred on the note; below, a three-line legal declaration in larger letterpress type affirms the municipality's liability for the notes issued to relieve the small-change shortage. 'Serie IV.' appears at lower left and 'Nachdruck verboten.' at lower right. |
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Senftenberg is a small market town in the Kremstal valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the chronic shortage of small coinage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The Marktgemeinde series — of which this 50 Heller is one denomination — was printed locally or through regional printers serving the Lower Austrian Notgeld wave, with no central authority controlling design standards or paper quality.
The JPR reference places this firmly within the Jaksch corpus of catalogued Austrian local issues. Senftenberg examples surface rarely at auction.