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| Issuer | Mitterndorf, Spa town of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld gutschein printed in green, yellow, and black on cream paper, with a central vignette of a view of Mitterndorf's parish church and adjacent building framed by a flowering tree, rendered in fine letterpress. Vertical ornamental borders in green flank the central image on both sides, composed of stylised foliate and geometric motifs. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in decorative cartouches at lower left and right, with the issuer name in bold Gothic script at the top and validity text in a scrolled panel at the bottom centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Mitterndorf im steir. Salzkammergut Gutschein über Die Gültigkeit dieses Gutscheines erlischt mit 31. Dezember 1920. 20 Heller |
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Mitterndorf's emergency notes — Notgeld — were issued during the acute small-coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. The denomination in Heller, rather than Kronen, reflects the transitional monetary moment: Heller-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation well before the war ended, making even trivial transactions difficult in small resort towns like this one.
The Jaksc subcategory IIc indicates a distinct printing variant within the Mitterndorf series — differences in paper stock, ink, or overprint details that catalogers have been able to separate with confidence.