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20 Heller Mauthausen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mauthausen (Market Town of Mauthausen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Mauthausen GUTSCHEIN über 20 Heller 20 Die Marktgemeinde Mauthausen haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein 4 Wochen nach Verlautbarung in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen * Nachahmung wird bestraft. * Vizebürgermeister: Michl Neumüller Bürgermeister: Michl Mayr Gemeinderat: F. Wittich 2. Auflage |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a halftone photographic vignette printed in green ink, occupying nearly the full face of the note within a plain ruled border. The image reproduces a group photograph of five soldiers in varied uniforms representative of different nationalities held at the Mauthausen prisoner-of-war camp during the First World War, with a captioned inscription above identifying them as types of prisoners of war from the Mauthausen camp, 1914–1918. |
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Mauthausen is a small market town on the Danube in Upper Austria, unremarkable in 1920 except for one thing: like hundreds of Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg empire, it was issuing its own emergency currency because the new Republic simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage. These locally printed Heller notes — Notgeld in the strict sense — were a municipal stopgap, authorized at the town level and backed by nothing more formal than the issuing community's word.
Three signatures authenticate this note: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a single council member. That combination was typical of Upper Austrian issues requiring quorum-style validation.