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50 Heller Mitterhausleiten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mitterhausleiten (Municipality of Mitterhausleiten, Bez. Amstetten) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain unadorned buff paper and bears a single oval official municipality stamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp reads 'Gemeinde Vorstehung MITTERHAUSLEITEN Pol. Bez. Amstetten, N.-Ö.' and serves as the sole authenticating mark on this side. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Mitterhausleiten is a small village in the Amstetten district of Lower Austria, and its wartime Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — issued from roughly 1914 onward as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost immediately after mobilization. The hoarding problem was severe enough that even parishes of a few hundred souls were authorized to print their own fractional paper.
The official stamp served as the primary authentication, a common solution when elaborate printing was neither practical nor affordable for a rural commune operating on minimal administrative resources.