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10 Heller Mittersill
| Issuer | Markt- und Landgemeinde Mittersill |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted Notgeld voucher dated 1 August 1920, with an Alpine landscape vignette across the upper portion rendering snow-capped peaks, wooded hillsides, and a valley in fine letterpress style. The denomination '10 HELLER' appears in a central box accompanied by a small municipal coat of arms, while issuing text and dual burgomaster signatures occupy the lower field within a decorative border. A guilloche band with fish motifs runs along the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT-GELD DIESER GUTSCHEIN 10 HELLER WIRD VON DEN GEZEICHNETEN GEMEINDEN IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN UND VOM 1.- 31. JÄNNER 1921 IN GESETZLICHER WÄHRUNG EINGELÖST. MARKT UND LANDGEMEINDE MITTERSILL DIE BÜRGERMEISTER: ALTENBERGER VORDEREGGER MITTERSILL, 1. AUGUST 1920. |
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Mittersill is a small market town in the Salzburg Pinzgau, and this 10 Heller Schein is a product of Austria's Notgeld wave — the flood of locally issued emergency money that swept the country from roughly 1919 through 1921 as chronic coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Municipalities, businesses, and even individual estates printed their own scrip, with full knowledge that the central authorities would eventually invalidate it all.
The Jaksc/Pick PR0622a designation places this within the catalogued Salzburg regional issues. Printed locally in Mittersill rather than by one of the major specialist printers, the production quality is accordingly modest.