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50 Heller Mauthausen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mauthausen (Market Town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress note with a rectangular border composed of repeating X-pattern motifs. To the left, a vignette illustrates a tall stone pillar or Prangerssäule (pillory column) set in a landscape with trees and cloudy sky, captioned 'PRANGERSSÄULE' below. To the right, a text block in German italic script states the redemption obligation of the Marktgemeinde Mauthausen, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning, and the printed facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. The printer's imprint 'Buchdruckerei Enns' appears beneath the central dividing line. |
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| Signature(s) | Michl Mayr (Bürgermeister), Michl Neumüller (Vizebürgermeister) and F. Wittich (Gemeinderat) |
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Mauthausen's notgeld series was printed in the nearby town of Enns — a common arrangement in Upper Austria, where small municipalities lacking their own print facilities contracted out to regional commercial presses. Buchdruckerei Enns produced issues for several area communes during the 1919–1921 notgeld wave, and the quality is accordingly modest.
Three signatories is unusual for a piece of this denomination — most comparable Austrian Gemeinde issues carried only a Bürgermeister countersignature, making the dual mayoral plus council member authentication here a local procedural quirk worth noting.