10 Heller Mautern

Mautern an der Donau is a small market town in Lower Austria, directly across the Danube from Krems. This 10 Heller note is a piece of Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued across Austria and Germany in the early postwar years when central coin supplies were effectively exhausted. Thousands of municipalities issued their own fractional paper, and Mautern was among the smaller communities to do so, producing a modest series in 1920 as the Austrian crown continued its slide toward the hyperinflationary collapse that would follow by 1922.

The Jaksc catalogue reference (JPR0600IIe-10) places this within a documented local series, though survival rates for small-town Austrian Notgeld vary considerably depending on whether issues were redeemed and pulped or retained by collectors.