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| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE AIGEN 20 Heller DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DER GEMEINDE AIGEN BIS ZUM 31. OKTOBER 1920 IN GESETZLICHEM GELDE EINGELÖST. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: FRUHSTORFER KEITER. FRAUENLOB GEMEINDERÄTE. G&D DRUCK E.W. MÜLLER SALZBURG. |
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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.