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20 Heller
| Issuer | Land Salzburg (Landeshauptmänner) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a yellow diamond-pattern underprint. The central vignette bears the large numeral '20' surmounted by the word 'zwanzig' and flanked by the Salzburg provincial coat of arms shield, with the denomination 'Heller' below. Redemption text in Gothic Fraktur script is arranged in three columns across the note, with the issuance date 'Salzburg, 1. Okt. 1919' at lower right and five facsimile signatures of the Landeshauptmänner below the central device. |
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| Signature(s) | Preußler, Meyer, Nehrl, and Ott |
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Salzburg's 1919 Heller notgeld belongs to the sprawling emergency coinage movement that swept Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left provincial and municipal governments scrambling to plug a catastrophic coin shortage. The Landeshauptmänner — effectively the provincial executive council — issued under their collective authority rather than through any single banking institution, which accounts for the unusual four-signature arrangement: Preußler, Meyer, Nehrl, and Ott signing jointly as governing officials, not bank officers.
Printed locally in Salzburg, this is a genuinely provincial production rather than a Vienna import. At under 2,500 mm², the physical object is almost absurdly small for a monetary instrument.