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20 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Municipality of Mondsee) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Heller Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dez. 1920 von der Markt-Gem.-Vorst. Mondsee in gesetl. Währung eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister: A. Kaltenbrunner Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
| Signature(s) | A. Kaltenbrunner |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. Mondsee, a small lakeside market town in the Salzkammergut, printed its own fractional currency because the state simply could not supply enough low-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving. These hyper-local issues were a practical necessity first, a collectible commodity second — though by 1920 or so, the speculative collector market had begun distorting production runs.
Designed and presumably printed locally, with Reisenbichler credited as designer and signed by A. Kaltenbrunner, likely a municipal official rather than a bank representative.