Catalog
20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Klamm (Market Town of Klamm) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Plain white note with black letterpress text. A central oval vignette bears the town coat of arms or seal with the dates 1614 and 1913 flanking it, above which the issuer name arcs in bold capitals. The denomination and validity clause are printed in large and small type respectively across the centre of the note. A signature line for the mayor appears in the lower right, with a handwritten signature below the printed title. Printer information is typeset in small text along the lower edge. |
| 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.