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10 Heller Sonnberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sonnberg (Municipality of Sonnberg, Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ZEHN HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE SONNBERG DIESE GUTSCHEINE WERDEN BIS 30. NOVEMBER 1920 BEI DER GEMEINDEKASSE IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINGELÖST. GESAMTAUFLAGE 20000 K G.R.B. v. 8. JULI 1920 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and black, with a dense foliate and dot underprint filling the entire field, framed by a fine dotted border. A central rectangular vignette in dark intaglio-style letterpress illustrates a woodcutting scene with two laborers felling and stacking timber logs beneath a rising sun, evoking the local rural economy. The denomination numeral '10' is set in circular cartouches to the left and right, and a small bird vignette appears at the lower left margin above the issuer inscription. |
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Sonnberg is a small rural municipality in the Flachgau district of Salzburg province, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the wave of Notgeld issued across Austria between 1919 and 1921 when the post-imperial coinage shortage left even minor municipalities scrambling to produce their own small-denomination emergency money. The Habsburg coinage system had collapsed with the empire, and centrally minted replacement coins were slow to reach provincial communities.
Parish-level Notgeld from Salzburg villages is considerably harder to document than the more widely studied Viennese and Styrian issues — Sonnberg's output was modest, printed locally, and mostly redeemed and destroyed within a year or two of issue.