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25 Heller Mitterbach
| Issuer | Municipality of Mitterbach an der Erlauf |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde MITTERBACH a.d. nied.-öster. steir. Alpenbahn 25 HELLER 25 Ötscher 1892m Giltig vom 1. JUNI bis 31. DEZ. 1920 der Finanz-Referent: der Bürgermeister: der Vicebürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue on buff paper, the entire field is enclosed within a decorative repeating foliate and floral border with rosette corner pieces. The interior carries six lines of a Styrian dialect folk song verse in Kurrent-style script, attributed 'Stoansteirisch 1', with the printer's imprint centred at the foot below the border. |
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Mitterbach an der Erlauf is a small resort municipality in Lower Austria, and this 25 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria in 1920 as chronic coin shortages persisted well beyond the armistice. Hundreds of Austrian communes issued their own emergency pfennig-denomination scrip during this period, but the Mitterbach series is notable for involving Jos. Fluch as designer — a detail that elevates it above the purely functional municipal issues printed from generic templates.
Sommer of St. Pölten handled production, a regional printer responsible for several Lower Austrian Notgeld series of this vintage.