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10 Heller
| Issuer | Dorfgemeinde Mittelberg (Village Municipality of Mittelberg, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld d. Dorfgem. Mittelberg. Ruine von Kronsegg 10 Heller |
| Signature(s) | Franz Traunfellner (Vizebürgermeister) and Karl Gruber (Bürgermeister) |
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Mittelberg is a small village in the Wienerwald foothills, and this note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria in the immediate post-war years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional currency — the so-called Notgeld — to keep local commerce moving at all. Thousands of Austrian parishes did the same, but the sheer volume issued makes individual attribution to a specific printer nearly impossible without physical examination.
The dual-signature arrangement — Vizebürgermeister Traunfellner alongside Bürgermeister Gruber — reflects the legal requirement that municipal emergency currency carry countersignature authority.