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20 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Mautern a/D. 20 Heller Gut-Schein Die Stadtgemeinde Mautern a. d.D. haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen Mautern, den 2 April 1920 Der Vizeburgermeister Der Burgermeister Der Gemeinderat |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, typeset entirely in brown ink in Fraktur script. The upper left bears the edition notice '2. Auflage.' A four-line humorous verse in italicised Fraktur occupies the upper portion. Below, the central text in larger Fraktur gives the voucher title 'Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Mautern a. d. D. über 20 Heller.' followed by validity and redemption period notices and a counterfeiting warning. |
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Mautern an der Donau is a small market town in Lower Austria directly across the Danube from Krems, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the post-war Habsburg monetary system in collapse and small coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, exported, or melted — hundreds of towns and villages issued their own emergency paper. Mautern was among the smaller issuers, which makes survival rates genuinely low compared to the high-volume tourist Notgeld churned out by larger centers.
The Jaksch/Pick IIb designation indicates a second type variant within the Mautern series.