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| Issuer | Gemeinde Fusch a/See (Municipality of Fuschl am See, Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-purple on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a letterpress border of interlocking oval and scroll motifs, with the denomination '20 Heller' repeated within square cartouches at each corner. The central text panel carries the full issuing authority and guarantee text in German blackletter script, below which two manuscript signatures appear beneath the printed titles of Bürgermeister and Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter. The printer's imprint 'Z.J. Kral' is present at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Fusch a/See (Salzkammergut.) Ausgegeben mit dem Gemeindeausschuss-Beschlusse vom 11. IX. 1920, gültig bis 1.I.1922. Für die Einlösung des Gutscheines haftet die Gemeinde mit ihrem Aktivvermögen Der Bürgermeister: Der Bürgerm. Stellv.: 20 Heller |
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Fuschl am See issued this note under the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left the country chronically short of small change. Z.J. Kral was a Vienna-based printer responsible for a substantial portion of the provincial Notgeld output from Salzburg and Upper Austria — competent commercial work, not the artistically ambitious collector-targeted Serienscheine that some larger towns produced to extract philatelic revenue.
The Heller denomination was already functionally obsolete by 1920, with rampant inflation eating through low-value coins almost faster than they could be struck.