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20 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a dashed border with a header cartouche bearing the inscription 'Stadtgemeinde Mautern a. D.' flanked on each side by the denomination numeral '20' in diamond-shaped panels. A central vignette presents a letterpress illustration of the Danube bridge at Mautern, with the town's heraldic shield repeated at lower left and right. Below the vignette, a three-line guarantee text in Fraktur script reads 'Mautern, den 2. April 1920,' followed by three facsimile signatures above the respective titles of Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Mautern a.D. 20 Heller Gut-Schein Heller Die Stadtgemeinde Mautern a.d.D. haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Mautern, den 2. April 1920. Der Vizebürgermeister Der Bürgermeister Der Gemeinderat |
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Mautern an der Donau is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a Notgeld issue — emergency small change produced by local municipalities when the collapsing Habsburg economy left Austria chronically short of metal coinage after the First World War. The Stadtgemeinde itself acted as the issuing authority, a legal oddity permitted under postwar Austrian emergency ordinances that briefly turned hundreds of towns into de facto currency printers.
The Jaksc reference places this firmly in the catalogued Austrian Notgeld corpus. These municipal issues were typically printed in small runs on basic paper stock, and many were redeemed and destroyed within months, making intact survivors more common among collector hoards than in genuinely circulated condition.