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50 Heller Spitz an der Donau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries the bold Gothic-script inscription WACHAUER NOTGELD. / GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE SPITZ A/D., with the denomination 50 HELLER 50 set within an oval frame below. To the right, the validity date GILTIG BIS 30. SEPTEMBER 1920 appears above an oval official seal of the Marktgemeinde Schönbühel, beneath which a decorative ornament is placed. A detailed black-line vignette at the right edge presents a riverside view of Kloster Schönbühel, the cliff-top monastery reflected over the Danube, captioned KLOSTER SCHÖNBÜHEL. |
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| Obverse lettering | WACHAUER NOTGELD. GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE SPITZ A/D. 50 HELLER 50 GILTIG BIS 30. SEPTEMBER 1920 KLOSTER SCHÖNBÜHEL |
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Spitz an der Donau issued this Heller note as part of Austria's widespread Notgeld explosion following the collapse of the Habsburg economy — small municipalities across the country were forced to plug a chronic shortage of small change that the central authorities couldn't address. What distinguishes the Spitz series is the local artistic investment: Knausgruber was engaged as a painter-designer, and Eduard Sieger's engraving work lifts these notes well above the cruder emergency issues produced by comparable Wachau villages.
The print run of over twelve million for a village of this size almost certainly reflects wholesale production for collector distribution — a deliberate secondary market that many Niederösterreich communes openly exploited by 1920.