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10 Heller Mitterhausleiten
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Mitterhausleiten |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a blue-green guilloche border with a stylised foliate chain pattern enclosing a central letterpress field. A bold blackletter heading reads 'Heller' flanked by two circular numeral '10' medallions at upper left and right, above the large blackletter word 'Gutschein'. Below, the issuing authority 'der Ortsgemeinde Mitterhausleiten, Bez. Amstetten' is set in italic script, with three signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Geschäftsführender Gemeinderat. The right portion forms a detachable coupon with a sepia vignette of a horse-drawn agricultural scene, a redemption deadline notice, and a counterfeit warning at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Fehringer (Vizebürgermeister) and Weinhofer (Bürgermeister) and Kronberger (Geschäftsführender Gemeinderat) |
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Mitterhausleiten is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the catastrophic coin shortage that gripped Austria following the First World War. Municipal and parish authorities across the country were authorized — or in many cases simply took it upon themselves — to issue their own emergency small-denomination paper, the so-called Notgeld, when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Three signatories were required here: the mayor, the deputy mayor, and the managing council member, an unusually full complement of local authority lending legitimacy to what was essentially homemade money.