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20 Heller Mattighofen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mattighofen (Market Town of Mattighofen) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0594d-20 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a panoramic engraved vignette of the Mattighofen townscape across the lower half, with rooftops, trees, and a church steeple rendered in fine line work. Above, the municipal coat of arms — a quartered shield bearing a stylised letter, a crescent, and a six-pointed star — occupies the centre, flanked on each side by two decorative lobed cartouches enclosing the numeral "20" repeated three times in cluster arrangements. The denomination "Zwanzig Heller" is inscribed in script beneath the shield. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 Zwanzig Heller |
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Mattighofen's Heller notgeld belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency money issued during and immediately after WWI, when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Small market towns were left to fend for themselves, and local authorities printed their own fractional notes with whatever printing resources were available regionally — quality and durability varied enormously as a result.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch corpus of Austrian notgeld documentation, the standard scholarly catalog for this material. The "d" suffix indicates a distinct variety within the 20 Heller Mattighofen issues — likely a paper stock, color, or overprint variation rather than a separate emission date.