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10 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on green paper, the obverse carries a decorative border of dashed rectangles enclosing the entire design. At the top, a lozenge-shaped cartouche at left bears the numeral '10', a central oval vignette carries the Gothic-script inscription 'Stadtgemeinde Mautern a. D.', and a matching lozenge at right repeats the numeral. Below, the word 'Heller' appears at each lateral margin flanking the bold inscription 'Gut-Schein'. The central vignette shows a detailed engraved view of a multi-arch iron bridge over the Danube, with the town of Mautern visible in the background; the municipal coat of arms appears at lower left and lower right. A two-line guarantee text in German is set below the vignette, followed by the issue date 'Mautern, den 2 April 1920' and three manuscript signatures with printed titles for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on plain green paper, the unbordered reverse opens at upper left with the edition notation '2. Auflage.' in roman type. Below, a four-line German verse in Gothic script reads as a civic admonishment praising the ten-Heller notes and disparaging larger denominations. The central text block, set in bold Gothic script, identifies the note as 'Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Mautern a. d. D. über 10 Heller.' Validity and redemption period notices follow in regular Gothic type, concluding with the counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung strafbar.' |
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Mautern an der Donau, a small municipality on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems, issued these Heller notes as part of the broader Austrian Notgeld phenomenon — locally printed emergency small change that filled the vacuum left by the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918. The 1920 dating places this squarely in the hyperinflationary transitional period before the Austrian crown stabilized.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog record almost certainly refers to a documentation or acquisition date, not production — by 1945 this note had been obsolete for over two decades.