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80 Heller Mauerkirchen
| Issuer | Mauerkirchen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 118 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, the obverse carries an oval vignette at left enclosing a figure of a town crier or watchman with a horn and lantern against a stylized background, rendered in an Art Nouveau letterpress style. To the upper right, the municipal coat of arms of Mauerkirchen is set within a shield. The central area below the issuer name bears lines of musical notation accompanied by the text of a local folk song or bell-ringing verse, with the denomination numeral '80' repeated at lower left and right flanking the bold inscription 'HELLER'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Mauerkirchen gibt über Beschluß des Gemeindeausschusses vom 4. 6. 1920 eine zweite Auflage von Notgeld aus. Die Einlösung dieser Scheine erfolgt innerhalb vier Wochen nach amtlicher Verlautbarung in gesetzlichem Bargelde. Bürgermeister-Stellv.: Bernhofer Bürgermeister: Erlury |
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Mauerkirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it turned to notgeld during the postwar collapse of the central monetary system. The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one — most Austrian notgeld clusters around rounder values — and likely reflects an attempt to cover a specific local change-making gap rather than any systematic planning.
Wilh. Mayer of Gmunden produced a large number of Upper Austrian municipal issues during this period, and the printing quality is generally modest. The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR0598IIa confirms this as a second type within the Mauerkirchen series.