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50 Heller Mautern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mautern an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Brown notgeld printed on plain paper with a decorative border of scrollwork and grapevine motifs. A central vignette presents a view of Mautern an der Donau with the town church tower and riverside buildings framed by trees. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in large numerals at upper right alongside the municipal coat of arms and the issuer inscription 'Stadtgemeinde Mautern a.D.', with three manuscript signatures and the issue date '2. April 1920' at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed entirely in brown letterpress typography in a Gothic blackletter script, without any vignette or ornamental border. A four-line vernacular verse is set at the top, followed by the formal issue title 'Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Mautern a. d. D. über 50 Heller' in bold display type. Validity and redemption period notices and a counterfeiting warning are printed below, with '2. Auflage' (second edition) noted at upper left. |
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Mautern an der Donau, a small market town in Lower Austria opposite Krems, issued this Heller notgeld in 1920 as part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg currency system. The central government could not supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, and thousands of towns — many far smaller than Mautern — printed their own. The Jaksc catalog documents hundreds of Lower Austrian issues from this period, the vast majority printed locally in very small quantities.
Survival rates for these minor municipal issues vary sharply; Mautern's notgeld was not produced for collectors but for actual change-making use in local shops.