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20 Heller Hallein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hallein (City of Hallein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan and red letterpress emergency note with the large denomination numeral '20' at centre beneath the preposition 'FÜR', flanked by two scroll-bordered cartouches enclosing vignettes of Hallein's historic gateways — the Gollingertor at left and the Salzburgertor at right, each identified in ribbon banners. The redemption text, 'ZWANZIG HELLER · GILTIG 16.6.1920 · WIRD VOM 1. BIS · 31.12.1920 · EIN GELÖST · DER BÜRGERMEISTER', is arranged vertically in the central field, with three facsimile manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister below. |
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| Reverse description | Tan and red letterpress reverse centred on a panoramic landscape vignette of Hallein along the Salzach river, with wooded slopes and rocky peaks in the background; directional ribbon banners reading 'NACH·INNSPRUGG·' and 'NACH·SALZBURG·' appear at lower left and right of the vignette, while a scroll at the top carries the pan-German motto 'ZUM·DEUTSCHEN·REICH·'. The denomination '20' appears twice in large red numerals at lower left and right, flanking the issuer inscription 'STADT·GEMEINDE HALLEIN', with the designer's credit 'O.FELGEL·FARNHOLZ·O.' printed below. |
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Hallein's 1920 Heller issues belong to the sprawling Austrian Notgeld phenomenon — the post-WWI collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal and commercial issuers scrambling to fill a fractional coin shortage that the new Republic could not immediately address. R. Kiesel was a Salzburg printing house responsible for several regional emergency issues in the period, and Felgel-Farnholz's designer credit appears across multiple Salzburg-area Notgeld series.
The JPR0344IIa designation indicates a catalogued variety within the Hallein series — small format Notgeld of this type was typically redeemed and pulped by 1922, making intact survivors more common in collector hoards than in genuinely circulated condition.