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20 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Town of Mondsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Heller Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dez. 1920 von der Markt Gem.-Vorst. Mondsee in geseßl. Währung eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister: A. Kaltenbrunner Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced between 1919 and 1922, when the post-imperial collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left municipal authorities scrambling to fill a severe shortage of small-denomination coinage. Marktgemeinde Mondsee, a market town on the Mondsee lake in Upper Austria, issued these locally to keep daily commerce moving. The designer Reisenbichler and signatory A. Kaltenbrunner were almost certainly local figures — Notgeld at this level was a community affair, not a central banking operation.
The 20 Heller denomination places this at the lower end of practical utility for the time.