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20 Heller Mettmach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mettmach (Municipality of Mettmach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, entirely typeset in dark brown ink without any guilloche or ornamental underprint. The heading 'Gutschein' appears in large blackletter script at the top, below which the denomination 'über Zwanzig Heller' is repeated symmetrically at left and right of the large central numeral '20', followed by the issuer line 'der Gemeinde Mettmach.' A four-line explanatory text in smaller roman type states the legal basis for the issue, citing the municipal committee resolution of 21 March 1920. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Hütter (Bürgermeister) |
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Mettmach is a small Upper Austrian commune that, like hundreds of similar municipalities, issued its own emergency paper in the chaotic years following Austria's defeat in World War One. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the acute shortage of metal coinage left local governments with little choice — Heller denominations in coin had effectively disappeared from circulation, and the new Austrian state was in no position to supply substitutes quickly.
Signed by Bürgermeister Johann Hütter, whose personal authorization gave the note its local legal standing. These Notgeld issues were typically redeemable only within the issuing commune.