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70 Heller Mattighofen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mattighofen (Market Town of Mattighofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0594d-70 |
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| Obverse lettering | 70 Heller Siebzig Heller Gutschein der Marktgemeinde MATTIGHOFEN Die Marktgemeinde Mattighofen haftet für diesen Gutschein und löst denselben bis 31. December 1920 im gesetzlichen Bargeld ein. |
| Reverse description | Blue-black letterpress on cream paper, with the denomination '70 Heller' in bold type at upper left and upper right. The upper portion carries the municipal coat of arms of Mattighofen — a divided shield bearing a crescent moon and a six-pointed star — flanked by two decorative ribbon scrolls carrying patriotic inscriptions. Below, a panoramic topographic vignette presents an engraved townscape view of Mattighofen as it appeared in 1572, with the tall church steeple dominating the skyline and a river in the foreground; the place name 'Mattighofen' is inscribed at lower left and the date '1572' appears in a small cartouche at lower right. The entire composition is enclosed within an ornate scrollwork border. |
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Mattighofen's 70 Heller Notgeld belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency money issued between 1919 and 1921, when the post-imperial collapse of the Austro-Hungarian crown system left local governments scrambling to maintain small-denomination liquidity. The market town printed these notes under the Notgeld framework that allowed municipalities to issue their own fractional currency pending stabilization — a stop-gap that ultimately produced thousands of distinct local types across what remained of German-speaking Austria.
The 70 Heller denomination is among the more unusual face values in the series, chosen to meet specific change-making needs rather than any standard monetary convention.