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20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Town of Mondsee, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0626-20 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper within the same geometric chain border as the obverse. The denomination '20 Heller' appears at upper left, with the municipal coat of arms of Mondsee — a shield divided into upper and lower halves, the upper bearing a crescent moon and the lower depicting a boat with figures on water — positioned below it in a square cartouche. The right-hand vignette, rendered in a bold woodcut-style letterpress, presents a labourer striding across a ploughed field with an Alpine rocky peak and billowing clouds in the background. The legend 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' is inscribed along the lower margin, with the designer's name 'REISENBICHLER' below the border. |
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| Signature(s) | A. Kaltenbrunner |
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Mondsee's 20 Heller Notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of locally issued emergency coinage substitutes that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921, when small-denomination metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The market town — perhaps best known for its Benedictine abbey and the Mondsee culture archaeological site — produced a modest series of these notes signed by A. Kaltenbrunner, almost certainly the local Bürgermeister or an authorized municipal official.
The designer credit to Reisenbichler is a regional detail worth noting: many Austrian Notgeld pieces were farmed out to local artists and teachers, giving this category its remarkable graphic variety. Whether Reisenbichler was a townsman or a hired hand from a nearby city is not recorded in the standard references.