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70 Heller Mutters
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mutters (Municipality of Mutters) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0641a-70 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and olive-green on a toned paper ground within the same geometric rule-bordered frame as the obverse. A finely engraved vignette in the left panel portrays a tall railway viaduct set against a wooded Alpine hillside with buildings visible at its base. The right panel carries the issuer name 'Gemeinde Mutters' and the text 'Gutschein über 70 Heller' in bold blackletter script, flanked by decorative scroll ornaments. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Staudey (Bürgermeister), Josef Schlafferer (1. Stellvertreter) and Fried. Taufenthaler (2. Stellvertreter) |
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Mutters is a small village south of Innsbruck, and this 70 Heller note is a product of Austria's Notgeld crisis — the period after 1918 when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to issue their own emergency scrip simply to make change. The denomination itself is telling: 70 Heller was an unusual, awkward figure, chosen not for elegance but because that is what the local economy actually needed at that moment.
Three signatories — the Bürgermeister and two deputies — were required to validate the issue, a formality that gave these tiny village notes a veneer of municipal authority in a period when that authority was itself newly uncertain, Tyrol having only just been severed from its southern territories by the postwar settlement.