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50 Heller Wachau - Mitter Arnsdorf)
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Spitz an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette engraved in a landscape style presents a panoramic river view of Mitter Arnsdorf in the Wachau valley, with rolling hills, trees, and village buildings rendered in fine linework. The denomination '50' appears in bold Gothic numerals in the upper-left and upper-right corners, with 'HELLER' inscribed across the top centre in large Gothic lettering. Decorative scrollwork borders with grape vine motifs frame the sides, and the issuer inscription 'Mitten Arnsdorf / Wachauer Notgeld' is printed in Gothic script at the lower portion of the note. A red cancellation stamp is applied diagonally across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER 50 Mitten Arnsdorf Wachauer Notgeld |
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One of hundreds of Notgeld issues that flooded rural Austria in the postwar years, this Wachau series note from Spitz an der Donau was printed by Conrad Sieger in nearby Krems — a local press serving local need, which gives the production a coherence unusual among emergency issues that often went abroad for printing. The designer credit reading "Prof. G. Tomschik" points to Gustav Tomschik, a Viennese artist associated with decorative work of the period, though his involvement in provincial Notgeld commissions was not uncommon.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JJPR1122.06IId places this firmly in the documented Wachau collector series — notes that were issued as much for philatelic sale as for actual small-change use, a common dual purpose by 1920.