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40 Heller Mutters
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mutters (Municipality of Mutters) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress notgeld on cream paper, divided into two panels by a ruled border. The left panel carries the large numeral '40' above the denomination spelled out in Gothic blackletter script as 'Vierzig Heller'. The right panel contains the redemption text in Gothic script, the issuing authority 'Mutters', the validity date of 31 December 1920, and an anti-counterfeiting warning. Three facsimile signatures appear below, identifying the Bürgermeister and two deputies. The entire design is enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular frame with decorative corner and mid-border ornaments. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Stauder (Bürgermeister), Josef Schlafferer (1. Stellvertreter) and Fried. Taufenthaler (2. Stellvertreter) |
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Mutters is a small village south of Innsbruck, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortages of the First World War and its aftermath. This 40 Heller note is a product of that collapse in small-denomination metal coinage, signed by the mayor and both deputy mayors as the legally responsible local officials, a requirement of the Austrian municipal Notgeld framework.
The JPR prefix in Jaksch/Pick places it firmly in the Tyrolean regional series. Three signatures on a village note of this value is worth noting — it signals this issue was treated with some administrative seriousness rather than dashed off as a stopgap.