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80 Heller Mistlberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mistlberg (Municipality of Mistlberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Jos. Walti, Linz / J. Haase, Linz |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned Notgeld voucher printed in letterpress with a central vignette of the Weidegut Thurnhof farmstead, showing cattle and sheep grazing in the foreground before a rural building set among trees. The denomination '80 Heller' appears in bold numerals at lower left and right within ornamental cartouches, flanked by small circular vignettes of livestock at the upper corners. The issuer legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Mistlberg' is rendered in decorative Gothic script across the lower portion of the note, with a foliate and guilloche border framing the entire composition. The imprint '2. Auflage' (second edition) appears at the bottom centre. |
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| Signature(s) | Huber (Bürgermeister) |
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Mistlberg is a tiny settlement in Upper Austria — the kind of place that issued Notgeld not out of institutional ambition but sheer necessity, as the postwar coin shortage of 1919–1920 left rural communities unable to make change for even the smallest transactions. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency small-denomination notes during this window, and Mistlberg's 80 Heller is a product of exactly that moment.
Two Linz print shops share the credit: Jos. Walti and J. Haase. Split production runs like this weren't uncommon for small municipal jobs, where one firm might handle typesetting and another the actual press work.