60 Heller Mitterndorf

Austrian Notgeld at its most localized — Mitterndorf, a small spa settlement in Styria, issued its own emergency small change during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg empire. These municipal Heller notes were a nationwide phenomenon in Austria between 1918 and 1921, with thousands of individual communities printing their own series, many through local printers with no formal banknote experience.

The JPR reference places this in the Jaksch-Pick Notgeld catalog, the standard authority for Austrian community issues. The 1920 date puts it toward the later end of the Notgeld wave, by which point some towns were producing collector-oriented series rather than genuine circulating necessity.