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20 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Town of Mondsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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| Signature(s) | A. Kaltenbrunner |
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This is an Austrian Notgeld piece — emergency small-change scrip issued by the market town of Mondsee in the Salzkammergut at a moment when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system had drained coins from circulation almost entirely. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own Heller notes in 1919–1920; Mondsee was simply one of them, and the series was rendered obsolete once the new Austrian crown stabilization measures took hold.
The designer credit to Reisenbichler is atypical — most comparable municipal issues went unsigned or credited a local printer rather than a named artist. The countersignature of A. Kaltenbrunner authenticated the issue on behalf of the Gemeindeverwaltung.