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20 Heller Mauthausen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mauthausen (Market Town of Mauthausen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der 20 Marktgemeinde Mauthausen Zwanzig Heller Die Marktgemeinde Mauthausen haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein vier Wochen nach Veröffentlichung in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister: Gemeinderat: |
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| Signature(s) | Anhl. Neumüller and Migh. Mayr and J. Willich |
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Mauthausen is a small Upper Austrian market town on the Danube, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to paper over the catastrophic small-coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The 20 Heller denomination sits at the lower end of practical everyday use — tram fares, bread, small market transactions — which means circulating examples took real wear. Three manuscript signatures authenticate each note, an unusual burden for a minor municipal issue and one that would have slowed production considerably.
Printed by E. Priezel in Steyr, roughly ten kilometers west of Mauthausen.