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10 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress notgeld on a salmon-pink guilloche underprint composed of a repeating diamond lattice pattern. The upper portion carries the issuer's name in a central oval cartouche flanked by diamond-shaped value numerals reading '10' on each side, with 'Heller' inscribed to the left and right below. A central vignette presents a line-engraved view of the Danube bridge at Mautern, framed by the municipal coats of arms of Mautern and Krems on either side. The lower portion bears a liability text and the issue date 'Mautern, den 2. April 1920', followed by three manuscript signatures above printed role designations. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Mautern a/D. 10 Heller Gut-Schein Die Stadtgemeinde Mautern a.d.h. haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen Mautern, den 2. April 1920 Der Vizebürgermeister Der Bürgermeister Der Gemeinderat |
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Mautern an der Donau is a small town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems in Lower Austria. This 10 Heller piece is a Notgeld issue — local emergency money printed by municipal authorities during the currency chaos that followed Austria's collapse after the First World War. The Heller denomination itself was already largely obsolete by 1920, which gives these small-town issues an odd anachronistic quality even at the moment of printing.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog error or misread — that date falls at the end of the Second World War, decades after Heller coinage and Notgeld of this type had been retired. The issue year of 1920 is consistent with the broader Austrian Notgeld wave.