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10 Heller Salzburg - Landesverband der Kriegsinvaliden
| Issuer | Landeshauptstelle der Kriegsinvaliden-, Witwen- und Waisen-Organisation des Landes Salzburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and black Notgeld printed on plain paper with a decorative border of green guilloche patterns. At centre, an oval vignette portrays a standing war invalid in civilian dress, flanked by landscape vignettes showing alpine scenery to the left and Salzburg's Hohensalzburg fortress to the right; spiral rosette ornaments occupy the lower corners. The denomination '10' appears in each corner with the legend 'HELLER' at the sides, while 'GUTSCHEIN', 'WITWEN WAISEN' and 'LANDESVERBAND SALZBURG' are inscribed across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 10 Heller Die Landeshauptstelle der Kriegsinvaliden-, Witwen- und Waisen-Organisation des Landes Salzburg in Salzburg haftet für diesen Gutschein mit ihrem ganzen Vereinsvermögen und ihr angeschlossenen Wirtschaftsabteilungen bis zum 31. Oktober 1920. Salzburg, am 1. August 1920. 1914-18 |
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This 10 Heller piece was issued by the Salzburg provincial organization for war invalids, widows, and orphans — one of dozens of welfare and relief bodies across the former Habsburg lands that turned to emergency small-denomination scrip after the postwar coin shortage made low-value transactions nearly impossible. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system had drained copper and nickel coinage from circulation well before the armistice, and by 1920 the gap was still unfilled.
The Jaksch corpus documents numerous such locally-issued Heller notes from Salzburg alone, most produced in small runs and redeemed quickly. Survival rates are uneven across the series.