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75 Heller Mitterbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mitterbach (Municipality of Mitterbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde MITTERBACH a.d. nied.-öster. steir. Alpenbahn ·HELLER· 75 Ötscher 1892m. Jos. Fluch ~920. Giltig vom 1. JUNI bis 31. DEZ. 1920 der Finanz-Referent: der Bürgermeister: der Vicebürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a decorative blue floral and leaf border enclosing a stanza in Gothic Kurrent script, presented as a regional folk-lyric about the edelweiss flower titled 'Da Schwoagrin ihr Herzload 3'. The text fills the interior field in seven lines of uniform script with no additional vignette or numeral. The printer's imprint 'SOMMER, ST. PÖLTEN' appears in small type at the lower margin below the border. |
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Mitterbach is a small Alpine resort municipality in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities in the early 1920s, it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the near-total absence of small-denomination coinage following Austria's postwar monetary collapse. The Sommer printing house in St. Pölten was a regional workhorse for such commissions, producing notes for numerous Lower Austrian Gemeinden during this period.
Three signatories — the Bürgermeister, Vicebürgermeister, and a Finanz-Referent — lend this note an unusually formal administrative weight for a village emergency issue.