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10 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on plain grey paper within a dashed rectangular border, the obverse carries a central vignette of an arched railway bridge over the Danube River, flanked on each side by the municipal coat of arms of Mautern bearing a lion and tower. The denomination numeral '10' appears in diamond cartouches at upper left and right, with the issuer name 'Stadtgemeinde Mautern v.D.' set in a pointed oval panel at top centre. Below the vignette, a two-line guarantee text in Gothic script is followed by the place and date 'Mautern, den 2. April 1920' and three manuscript signatures under their respective official titles. |
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| 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 town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems, issued these Heller notes as part of the broader Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918. Central coin supply had broken down almost entirely by 1920, and municipalities across the former empire — including villages with no banking infrastructure whatsoever — were printing their own fractional emergency scrip just to keep local commerce moving.
The Jaksc catalogue documents considerable variation within this series; the "IIa" designation indicates a specific paper stock or print variant, not a later reissue.