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20 Heller Mauerkirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mauerkirchen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green and dark brown Notgeld note with a decorative floral border framing the entire design. A central oval vignette presents a letterpress view of the Mauerkirchen parish church set among trees and landscape. The denomination "20 HELLER" appears in two large dark circular cartouches to the left and right of the vignette, with a scroll banner at top reading "Gutschein der" and a lower scroll banner reading "Marktgemeinde Mauerkirchen". Below the vignette, a three-line obligation text in German script is followed by two manuscript facsimile signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der HELLER 20 HELLER HELLER 20 HELLER Die Gemeinde Mauerkirchen haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Marktgemeinde Mauerkirchen |
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Mauerkirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the chaotic post-WWI period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. These locally printed scrip pieces filled a genuine transactional gap, not a collector market, though the collector market came quickly enough once issuers realized the secondary demand.
The 1920 date places this firmly in the second wave of Austrian Notgeld, after the initial wartime issues and before the hyperinflation that rendered the entire exercise moot within a few years.