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20 Heller Mariazell
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mariazell (Market Town of Mariazell, Styria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Green vignette occupying nearly the full face depicts two skiers in the foreground overlooking a sweeping Alpine valley with the Mariazell townscape below and snow-capped mountains beyond. Ornamental scroll borders frame all four sides; denomination numeral '20' appears at lower left and lower right. A three-line redemption text runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Mariazell gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 80.000 Kr. aus. (G.R. B8/6 1920) Diese Gutscheine werden bis 30 September 1920 in gef. Bargeld eingelöst. |
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Mariazell issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities scrambling to address the chronic coin shortage that persisted well after the First World War ended. The national government simply could not produce small-denomination coinage fast enough to meet demand, and local authorities filled the gap with paper scrip of dubious but practical authority.
Mariazell's status as Austria's most important pilgrimage site gave its Notgeld unusual circulation reach — visitors passing through carried these notes out of town, which is why they turn up in collections far removed from Styria.