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80 Heller Mitterndorf
| Issuer | Mitterndorf, Spa town of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 80 Hellers (0.8) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black, green, and gold on buff paper, with an ornate folk-art border composed of stylised floral motifs, geometric diamonds, and cogwheel rosettes enclosing the entire design. A central rectangular vignette presents a letterpress townscape of Mitterndorf with a prominent church steeple and rolling Alpine hills in the background. The denomination '80 HELLER' appears in large numerals at the upper left and right corners within the border, with the validity notice in a green panel at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN UEBER 80 HELLER MITTERNDORF IM STEIR. SALZKAMMERGUT DIE GILTIGKEIT DIESES GUTSCHEINES ERLISCHT MIT 31. DEZEMBER 1920. |
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Mitterndorf — now Bad Mitterndorf in the Styrian Salzkammergut — issued this emergency Heller note as part of Austria's broader postwar notgeld wave, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to maintain small-denomination liquidity. By 1920 the Austrian state was still struggling to supply adequate coinage, and spa towns like Mitterndorf, dependent on seasonal visitor trade, had particular incentive to issue their own scrip.
The Jaksc classification places this within the regional Austrian notgeld corpus. Many Styrian spa issues from this period were printed in small runs and collected rather than spent, which paradoxically makes genuinely circulated examples the harder find.