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20 Heller Bergheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bergheim (Municipality of Bergheim, Land Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE GEMEINDE BERGHEIM (LAND SALZBURG) HAFTET FÜR DIE VERBINDLICHKEIT DIESEN SCHEIN IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINZULÖSEN UND HAT HIE FÜR EINE EIGENE DECKUNGSRÜCKLAGE BESTELLT. DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD BIS 31. OKT. 1920 IM GEMEINDEAMTE IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINGELÖST. DER BÜRGERMEISTER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE BERGHEIM BERGHEIM PAROCHIA 20 |
| Reverse description | Violet-brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a wide central vignette rendered in fine line engraving, presenting a panoramic townscape of Bergheim viewed across the Salzach river, with the church tower and rocky hillside in the middle ground beneath a clouded sky. The vignette is enclosed within an arched frame set against a decorative guilloche border. The denomination '20 H' appears in bold letterpress at lower left and lower right, flanking the issuer legend 'GEMEINDE BERGHEIM' centred along the bottom; the word 'GUTSCHEIN' is split across the upper corners, and the artist's signature 'L. PECK' appears at lower right outside the border. |
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Bergheim is a small parish immediately north of Salzburg city, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small denominations functionally absent from circulation. The volume here — over twelve million pieces — is strikingly high for a municipality of this size, suggesting the notes served a regional rather than purely local function, possibly circulating across the wider Salzburg basin.
L. Peck handled both design and engraving, an unusual concentration of credit for Notgeld of this type, where design work was frequently anonymous or contracted out to commercial printers in bulk.