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20 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on pink-beige paper. The issuer name GEMEINDE AIGEN appears at the top in bold block lettering, above a central oval cartouche containing the large denomination numeral '20' and the word 'Heller' in decorative Gothic script. Below the cartouche, a text block in Gothic typeface states the redemption conditions, signed by the Bürgermeister (mayor) Fruhstorfer and Gemeinderäte; the entire design is framed by a geometric border of hatched rules with corner ornaments, and the printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | GEMEINDE AIGEN 20 Heller NACHAHMUNG STRAFBAR |
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Aigen was a small independent municipality on the southern outskirts of Salzburg — it was only incorporated into the city proper in 1935. This note is a Notgeld issue, one of thousands produced by Austrian towns and communes during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small transactions nearly impossible without local substitutes, and communes like Aigen filled the gap with their own paper.
G. & D. Druck E.W. Müller was a Salzburg-based printer that handled a number of regional Notgeld contracts — a local job, for a local note, solving a local problem.