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20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Klamm (Market Town of Klamm) |
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| In circulation to | 30 April 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a detailed landscape scene in teal-green tones, showing a rural village with a castle or fortified structure on a hillside in the background, a mill or farmhouse in the middle ground, and trees framing the composition on both sides. Floral ornaments appear in the upper corners, with the denomination numeral '20' printed on both the left and right sides in a decorative script. The town name 'Markt Klamm' appears in a banner along the lower edge. Designer credit 'entw. Fritz Lach' is printed in small text at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | MARKTGEMEINDE KLAMM, OB. ÖST. GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 20 HELLER GILTIG BIS 30. APRIL 1921. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DRUCK WIEN, GRIN (Translation: Market Town of Klamm, Upper Austria / Voucher for 20 Heller / Valid until 30 April 1921 / The Mayor:) |
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Fritz Lach was one of the more accomplished commercial artists working in Vienna during the Jugendstil period, and his involvement in Austrian Notgeld design was not unusual — many municipalities commissioning emergency small change during the post-WWI currency crisis turned to professional graphic artists rather than engravers. Klamm am Semmering is a small Lower Austrian resort community, and its Notgeld issues were among the decorative series that circulated between roughly 1920 and 1922, when the chronic shortage of small-denomination coins made locally issued paper unavoidable.
Lach contributed to multiple municipal Notgeld commissions during this period. Whether Klamm approached him directly or through a Vienna printer is unrecorded.