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20 Heller Mauerkirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mauerkirchen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain grey underprint composed of a repeating geometric ornamental pattern with a bold dashed outer border. The text 'MAUERKIRCHEN' repeats in the underprint band along all four margins, while the central field carries the denomination statement in large gothic and roman letterpress type over a faint oval guilloche underprint. A four-line redemption clause in German appears in the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller der Gemeinde Mauerkirchen Die Gemeinde Mauerkirchen haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, die Gutscheine vier Wochen nach Verlautbarung des Endes der Gültigkeitsdauer in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. MAUERKIRCHEN |
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Mauerkirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left small change in desperately short supply. The Marktgemeinde — a market-town administrative grade, not a full city council — had the legal standing to issue emergency currency, though the practical authority behind these notes was thin and their acceptance often purely local.
The print date of 30 April 1920 places this squarely in the peak period of Austrian municipal notgeld production, before federal stabilization efforts gradually suppressed local issues.