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25 Heller Linz - Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft
| Issuer | I. Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft r.G.m.b.H., Linz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Hellers (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in teal and cream, the obverse carries a central vignette of two men in period costume clasping hands in a gesture of solidarity, flanked by oak trees with acorns against a guilloche underprint. The Linz civic shield — bearing the Austrian eagle — appears at the lower centre, with denomination numerals '25' in decorative frames at upper left and upper right. The lower margin bears the date 'Linz, 21. April 1920', validity text, and two manuscript signatures above their respective titles, with a third signature at right under 'Der Schriftführer'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Heller Österreichs Mittelstand! Sei einig Hand in Hand; Mit vereinter Kräfte Walten Wird besser sich dein Los gestalten. Dann werden des Vereines Müh'n Gedeihen, wachsen, blüh'n. |
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The Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft was a middle-class commercial cooperative — the kind of quasi-banking mutual society that proliferated in Austrian provincial towns during the postwar collapse of the krone. By 1920, small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from daily commerce, hoarded or melted, and cooperative societies, municipalities, and even individual merchants began issuing their own Notgeld to keep transactions moving. This 25 Heller piece from Linz is a product of that breakdown, not of any formal monetary authority.
The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR0550-25 places it firmly in the Austrian emergency money corpus, though cooperative-issued Notgeld of this type received far less scholarly attention than the municipal series.