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20 Heller Hallein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hallein |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on pink paper, the note is framed by a dotted border with ornamental corner devices. The denomination "20 HELLER" appears in bold letterpress numerals within decorative panels at left and right, flanking a central octagonal vignette of a salt miner carrying a sack on his shoulder beside a salt pillar, a reference to Hallein's historic salt industry. Below, a four-line German-language text states the redemption conditions, dated Hallein, 1. Oktober 1919, and signed by Bürgermeister Neumayr. |
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| Signature(s) | Neumayr |
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Hallein's 1919 Heller notes belong to Austria's vast postwar Notgeld phenomenon — a near-total collapse of small coinage circulation forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency scrip. Hallein, a salt-mining town in Salzburg province with a long history of economic self-sufficiency, was among the many that simply could not wait for Vienna to solve the problem.
The Neumayr signature almost certainly refers to a local official rather than any notable figure in Austrian monetary history. Jaksch/Pick catalogues this as series Ia, implying at least one additional print run or variant exists for the denomination.