Catalog
10 Heller Mauthausen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mauthausen (Market Town of Mauthausen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet notgeld printed on cream paper with a decorative leaf-and-scroll border framing the entire face. A central rectangular vignette presents a line-art view of a stone church with a pointed steeple, flanked by trees and a wayside cross, set against a hatched sky. The denomination numeral '10' appears in scalloped cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the value inscription 'HELLER' beneath each, and the issuer designation 'MARKTGEMEINDE' at lower left and 'MAUTHAUSEN.' at lower right in bold Gothic lettering. The notation '3. Auflage.' (3rd printing) appears below the lower border. |
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| Signature(s) | Michl Neumüller (Vizebürgermeister), Michl Mayr (Bürgermeister) and F. Wittich (Gemeinderat) |
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Mauthausen's wartime Heller notgeld was a purely local solution to the small-change famine that gripped Austria from 1915 onward, as metal coinage vanished into hoarding and industrial use. The Buchdruckerei in nearby Enns — a modest commercial printer, not a security press — handled production, which is exactly the kind of arrangement that makes Austrian municipal notgeld so variable in paper quality and print registration across the series.
Three signatories from the town council authenticated each note: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a Gemeinderat — an unusually full quorum for denominations this small.