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20 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Salzburg) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0013a-20 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper with the same ruled geometric border and square corner ornaments as the obverse, the reverse bears the bold block-letter heading GEMEINDE AIGEN above a central octagonal vignette presenting a letterpress landscape view of the Alpine village of Aigen, with rural buildings and a road set against mountainous terrain. The denomination '20 Heller' in matching blackletter script appears below the vignette, accompanied by the anti-counterfeiting notice NACHAHMUNG STRAFBAR. |
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| Signature(s) | Fruhstorfer, Reiter and Frauenlob |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — printed during and after World War I when small-denomination coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation, hoarded by a public with no faith in paper alternatives. Aigen, a small Salzburg municipality, commissioned E.W. Müller locally rather than turning to one of the larger Vienna printing houses, which was common among smaller communes with limited procurement reach.
Three signatories was the norm for notes requiring community accountability. The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, though survivorship varies considerably across municipal issues.