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50 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in brown on the same green paper, bears a four-line rhyming verse in Fraktur script at the centre, referencing the cuckoo's call and the use of paper vouchers in place of coin. Below the verse, the issuer name and denomination are restated in large Fraktur lettering as "Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Mautern a.d.D. über 50 Heller", followed by the validity and redemption period and the anti-counterfeiting warning "Nachahmung strafbar". The upper left corner carries the edition designation "2. Auflage" (second issue). |
| Reverse lettering | 2. Auflage. Beim Kuckucksruf in Wald und Feld Da klimpert ich mit dem blanken Geld, Doch heuer hab' ich den Kuckuck belauscht Und still mit meinen Zetteln gerauscht. Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Mautern a.d.D. über 50 Heller. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösungsfrist 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung strafbar. |
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Mautern an der Donau is a small market town in Lower Austria directly across the Danube from Krems, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities in 1920. With the old Habsburg crown collapsing in purchasing power and the new Austrian Republic struggling to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation, hundreds of towns and communes printed their own emergency fractional notes. Mautern was one of the smaller issuers — the series was modest in scope and almost certainly never circulated far beyond the town itself.
The Jaksch/Pick reference IIc designation indicates a specific paper or print variant within the Mautern series, suggesting at least three distinguishable states exist.