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25 Heller Mitterbach
| Issuer | Municipality of Mitterbach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note divided into three vertical panels. The central panel carries the issuing authority inscription at top within a framed cartouche, above a large landscape vignette of the Ötscher mountain (1892 m) drawn by Jos. Fluch, with a railway visible in the valley below and conifer trees in the foreground. The left panel contains a smaller vignette of an Alpine chalet amid wooded terrain, while the right panel bears a botanical vignette of edelweiss. Denomination numerals '25' appear in the upper corners, with 'HELLER' flanking the central cartouche. The lower register states the validity period 'Giltig vom 1. Juni bis 31. Dez. 1920' and carries three manuscript signatures for the Finance Officer, the Bürgermeister, and the Vice-Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | Almrausch, Almrausch, bist a schen's Bleamerl! Almrausch, Almrausch, blüast so schen rot! Rot is die Liab so und liab war mei frischa Bua, Rot warn die Wanglan wia Herbstmorgen rot. Wann i vor dir so steh', tuat ma mei Herz so weh! Almrausch, Almrausch, blüast so schen rot! Da Schwoagrin ihr Herzload 1 SOMMER, ST. PÖLTEN |
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Mitterbach am Erlaufsee is a small resort village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld when small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation. The 25 Heller piece here was printed by Sommer in St. Pölten, with design credit to Jos. Fluch — an arrangement typical of the regional print trade that supplied the Austrian Notgeld boom from roughly 1919 to 1921.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0618b-25 indicates a second type or color variant within the Mitterbach series, suggesting at least two distinct printings were ordered.