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20 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Municipality of Mondsee) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on cream paper with a fine geometric guilloche underprint. At left, the denomination '20 Heller' appears in bold Gothic script above a multi-line redemption text in German Gothic typeface. To the right, a woodcut-style vignette portrays a broad alpine mountain landscape with rocky outcrops and rolling terrain. The inscription 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' is set in decorative Gothic script along the lower right, with the artist's signature 'REISENBICHLER' below. An ornamental chain-link border frames the note, consistent with the obverse layout. |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. Mondsee, a small lakeside market town in the Salzkammergut, printed its own fractional currency because the state simply could not supply enough low-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving. These hyper-local issues were a practical necessity first, a collectible commodity second — though by 1920 or so, the speculative collector market had begun distorting production runs.
Designed and presumably printed locally, with Reisenbichler credited as designer and signed by A. Kaltenbrunner, likely a municipal official rather than a bank representative.