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10 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | The plain pink reverse opens at upper left with the print-run designation '2. Auflage' and carries a four-line German verse above a central text block in Gothic script identifying the issuer and denomination. Below, two lines state the validity and redemption period, and the text closes with a counterfeiting warning. |
| Reverse lettering | 2. Auflage. Halte stets dich an das Kleine, Prozig ist nur das Gesindel. Echt sind die Zehnhellerscheine Und die Tausender sind Schwindel. Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Mautern a. d. D. über 10 Heller. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösungsfrist 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung strafbar. |
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Mautern an der Donau, a small Lower Austrian town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems, issued this 10 Heller note as part of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918 left local governments scrambling to fill a genuine small-change shortage — the Stadtgemeinde's authorization to issue these notes was practical necessity, not civic vanity.
The Jaksc catalog reference places this within the JJPR0600 series, a grouping that documents the breadth of Austrian local emergency issues down to individual print variants. Paper survival varies considerably across the series; Mautern examples are not among the commonly encountered pieces.