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25 Heller Mitterbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mitterbach (Municipality of Mitterbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0618c-25 |
| Obverse description | Olive-green letterpress note with a bordered layout divided into three vertical panels. The central vignette, signed by artist Jos. Fluch and dated 1920, presents a detailed landscape view of the Ötscher mountain (1892 m), with alpine scenery including conifer trees and a railway viaduct in the foreground. The left panel contains a smaller vignette of an alpine chalet amid trees, while the right panel bears a sprig of edelweiss. The denomination '25' appears in the upper corners, flanked by the legend 'HELLER · MITTERBACH · HELLER' and the issuing authority inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Mitterbach a.d. nied.-öster. steir. Alpenbahn' at top centre. The lower section carries the validity dates and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff-coloured paper reverse enclosed within a decorative border of repeating floral and foliate ornaments. The centre field is occupied by an eight-line alpine dialect poem in Fraktur script, titled 'Almfrieden 1', evoking the peace and beauty of the alpine meadows. The printer's imprint 'SOMMER, ST. PÖLTEN' appears in small capitals at the foot of the note. |
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Mitterbach is a small Alpine municipality in Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communes after the postwar currency collapse left small-denomination coins effectively absent from daily life. Thousands of municipalities issued their own emergency pfennig and heller scrip between 1919 and 1921; most are forgotten. The Sommer printing house in St. Pölten handled a number of these local commissions, and the designer credit to Jos. Fluch is unusually specific for a note of this tier — most comparable issues went uncredited. Three signatories across financial and mayoral offices reflect how seriously even tiny communities treated the formal authorization of their scrip.