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2 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeindevorsteung Mauerkirchen (Municipality of Mauerkirchen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 70 × 42 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey-beige paper note with letterpress printing in carmine-red and black. The denomination 'Gutschein / 2 Heller' is typeset in red at the top, while the centre is dominated by a large circular official municipality stamp in black ink reading 'GEMEINDE-VORSTEUNG' around the perimeter with 'Mauerkirchen' across the centre, flanked by small ornamental flourishes. A validity notice 'Giltig 31 Dez 20' (valid until 31 December 1920) is printed in red at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 70 g Hausbrot oder 50 g Mehl |
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Mauerkirchen is a small market town in the Innviertel, and this 2 Heller notgeld is precisely the kind of emergency scrip that proliferated across Austria and Germany in 1920 as chronic small-change shortages forced even minor municipalities to print their own fractional currency. The Heller itself was already a dying denomination — Austria would abolish it entirely in 1924 when the Krone collapsed and the Schilling system was introduced.
Local printing meant inconsistent quality control across the run, and Jaksc-catalogued Mauerkirchen pieces are notably scarce in collector holdings today, likely because most circulated hard before being discarded once the shortage eased.