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20 Heller Mank
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mank (Market Town of Mank) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Zwanzig Heller Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Mank Die Marktgemeinde Mank haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft. Mank, 15 Juni 1920 Der Vizebürgermeister Der Bürgermeister |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 20 20 20 Die Marktgemeinde Mank gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 30.000 Kronen aus. Diese werden bis 15. Dezember 1920 von der Marktkassa in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. |
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Mank is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian municipalities after the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local communities without adequate small change, forcing thousands of towns — Mank among them — to print their own emergency scrip. The Marktgemeinde assumed the issuing authority directly, a common arrangement where the municipal council stood as guarantor rather than any banking institution.
The two signatories, Ludwig Heyhat and Ant. Luger, almost certainly held local administrative office — mayor and treasurer, or equivalent positions — rather than any financial role in a formal sense.