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20 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on pink paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border with a guilloche-style dash pattern. At the top centre, an oval cartouche bears the issuer's name 'Stadtgemeinde Mautern a/D.' flanked on each side by the numeral '20' in diamond-shaped panels. The word 'Heller' appears at left and right beneath the denomination panels, while 'Gut-Schein' is inscribed centrally. A central vignette depicts an arched railway bridge over the Danube with a town and hills in the background, flanked by two heraldic shields. Below the vignette, a three-line guarantee text and date 'Mautern, den 2. April 1920' appear alongside three manuscript signatures representing municipal officials. |
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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 Verwaltungsausschuss: Der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
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Mautern an der Donau is a small market town in Lower Austria, directly across the Danube from Krems. This 20 Heller note is one of the Austrian Notgeld issues that proliferated between 1919 and 1921, when chronic small-coin shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system forced municipalities — including tiny ones — to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Stadtgemeinde had legal authority to do so under postwar Austrian emergency provisions, but redemption was never guaranteed beyond the issuing locality.
The Jaksc reference places this within a well-documented Lower Austrian municipal series, though survival rates vary sharply even within the same commune's issues.