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60 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Senftenberg (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Austrian Notgeld is a revalued overprint issue: a violet manuscript overprint reading '60 Heller' is applied over a printed '20 Heller' denomination on an earlier note design. The central vignette, framed by an ornate vine and leaf border, presents a landscape view of a hillside castle. Three facsimile signatures appear at the lower portion, with validity text reading 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920.' A secondary coupon at right carries the same '60 Heller' overprint above a tower vignette and the issuing municipality's details dated 16 May 1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Senftenberg / über / 20 Heller / Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 / Der Vizelgemeinderat / Der Bürgermeister / Der Gemeindevorstand / Marktgemeinde Senftenberg im Kremstale am 16. Mai 1920 |
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Senftenberg's 60 Heller Notgeld of 1920 belongs to the dense wave of Austrian municipal emergency money issued in the wake of the Habsburg collapse. The Marktgemeinde — a market township, not a full city — had no legal authority to issue currency in any conventional sense, but the catastrophic coin shortage following the First World War forced thousands of such communities across Austria and Germany into producing their own small-denomination scrip. The Heller itself was already a dying unit; Austria abolished it entirely in 1924 when the Schilling system was introduced.