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20 Heller Maissau
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Maissau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Maissau über 20 heller Zwanzig Heller Giltig bis 31. März 1921 Stadtgemeinde Maissau im Juni 1920 |
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| Signature(s) | Vormündl and Topf and Mader |
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Maissau is a small market town in Lower Austria, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — issued when postwar coinage shortages left small transactions impossible. Hundreds of Austrian communes printed their own, and most are unremarkable. What distinguishes individual pieces within this flood is usually local printing quality or the identity of the signatories; here, three signatures appear rather than the more common two, suggesting a civic oversight structure that required triple authorization.
The June 1920 print date places this squarely in the middle of Austria's most acute inflationary transition period, before the Krone's collapse accelerated beyond recovery.