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20 Heller Anif - 3. Auflage

Issuer Gemeinde Anif (Municipality of Anif)
Year 1920
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Value 20 Hellers (0.20)
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Reverse description Green and brown letterpress reverse, the field covered with a cross-hatched guilloche underprint. A central ornate cartouche encloses a vignette of Schloss Anif, the moated castle rendered in fine line work with its tower and surrounding buildings reflected in water; the caption 'SCHLOSZ ANIF' appears beneath the vignette within the cartouche. The denomination '20 HELLER' is repeated in large figures at lower left and lower right within circular guilloche rosettes, and the issuer inscription 'GEMEINDE ANIF' runs along the lower border in bold gothic type.
Reverse lettering 20 HELLER
SCHLOSZ ANIF
GEMEINDE ANIF
HÜTTER.
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Anif is a small village immediately south of Salzburg, and its municipal notgeld issues are among the more carefully produced local emergency money from the Austrian provinces. The third printing of this 20 Heller note was handled by E. & W. Möller, a Salzburg-based commercial printer responsible for several regional notgeld commissions during the postwar currency shortage years, when municipalities across the former Habsburg lands were forced to issue their own fractional paper to fill the vacuum left by disappearing coin.

The designer credit to Hutter — almost certainly a local commercial artist rather than a known printmaker — is consistent with how smaller Salzburg-area communes sourced their designs cheaply and quickly. Third-issue status implies the first two printings had already been exhausted in circulation, suggesting heavier local demand than many comparable village issues.

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