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20 Heller Mank
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mank (Market Town of Mank) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries a finely executed letterpress vignette of the Mank parish church with its characteristic onion-domed tower, set amid trees and low outbuildings behind a picket fence. The right half bears the denomination numeral '20' in a ruled panel at upper right, followed by the value inscription in Gothic blackletter script and the issuer legend, beneath which a framed text block states the municipality's liability pledge. The date 'Mank, 15 Juni 1920' appears above two manuscript signatures of the Vize-Bürgermeister and Bürgermeister. The entire composition is enclosed within a border of repeating square ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on an oval vignette rendered in a loose illustrative style, showing a large fish lying in a meadow with a diminutive human figure sheltering beneath it, evoking a regional folk-tale or allegorical scene. The numeral '20' appears in solid black panels at each corner. A rectangular text panel at the foot of the note, enclosed within a scrollwork border, sets out the total redemption conditions in Gothic blackletter script. |
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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.