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50 Heller Mittelberg
| Issuer | Dorfgemeinde Mittelberg (Village Municipality of Mittelberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Dorfgemeinde der Mittelberg Heller 50 Heller Gültig bis 31 Dez 1920 Nachahmung strafbar. Einlösungsfrist 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei persönlicher Vorweisung des Scheines an der Gemeindekasse Franz Traunfellner, Vizebgm. Karl Gruber, Bürgermeister. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Traunfellner and Karl Gruber |
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Mittelberg is a small alpine community in the Kleinwalsertal — a valley geographically isolated from the rest of Vorarlberg by the mountains and accessible overland only through Bavaria. This geographic anomaly gave the valley a customs union with Germany while remaining politically Austrian, a peculiarity that shaped its economic life well into the twentieth century. The 1920 Heller notes were part of the broader Austrian Notgeld wave, when the post-war collapse of the central monetary system forced even tiny municipalities to issue their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving.
Traunfellner and Gruber were almost certainly local officials rather than bank functionaries — Mittelberg had no bank branch of its own at this date.