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20 Heller Altmünster
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altmünster (Municipality of Altmünster) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Altmünster im Salzkammergut 20 Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Altmünster löst diesen Schein innerhalb vier Wochen nach öffentlich gemachter Kundgebung in gesetzlichem Bargeld ein. Altmünster 20. Mai 1920 Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Schloss Orth |
| Reverse description | Blue-on-buff reverse printed in the same letterpress style, with a broad panoramic vignette occupying the right portion showing the village of Altmünster with its church steeple in the foreground and an Alpine massif rising behind, rendered in bold outline illustration. To the left, an ornate cartouche encloses the municipal coat of arms flanked by two smaller heraldic shields, the denomination numeral '20,' and a four-line guarantee text. A Gothic-script heading reading 'Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller der Gemeinde Altmünster' spans the upper margin, with a decorative sun-and-foliage ornament at lower right. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from the post-WWI period tends to blur together, but Altmünster's 20 Heller issue has one point of genuine interest: it was printed in Ybbsitz, a small ironworking village in Lower Austria with no obvious commercial connection to Altmünster, which sits on the Traunsee in Upper Austria. The logistical oddity likely reflects the scramble among Salzkammergut municipalities to find any printer willing to take small notgeld contracts in 1920, when paper shortages and inflation were already eroding the economics of local issue.
Leo Christophory's involvement as designer places this note in the decorated collector-oriented notgeld wave — by 1920, many Austrian Gemeinden were commissioning artistic pieces as much for philatelic sale as for actual change.