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20 Heller Mitterndorf
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Mitterndorf |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in violet-purple on cream paper, with the town name 'Mitterndorf' in ornate Gothic script across the top, followed by the subtitle 'im steirischen Salzkammergut'. A central vignette presents a letterpress view of the local parish church with a prominent steeple amid flowering trees, framed by decorative folk-art borders running the full height of both side margins. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in boxed cartouches at lower left and lower right, with a central panel inscribed 'Gutschein über' and the validity clause noting expiry on 31 December 1920. |
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| Reverse lettering | ORTSGEMEINDE MITTERNDORF pol. Bez. GRÖBMING, Steiermark |
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Austrian Notgeld, issued at the municipal level during the acute small-change shortage that followed World War I. Towns and villages across Austria printed their own emergency fractional currency between roughly 1919 and 1921 because coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never reminted after the wartime disruption to the imperial monetary system.
Mitterndorf — likely Mitterndorf an der Fischa or Bad Mitterndorf in Styria — was one of hundreds of Ortsgemeinden that issued independently, making the Jaksc catalog the essential reference for untangling this flood of hyperlocal paper. The JPR0621IIb designation suggests at least a second variety exists within this denomination.