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20 Heller Hallwang
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hallwang (Municipality of Hallwang) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Hallwang 20 20 Heller Heller |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Hallwang haftet laut Gemeinderats-Beschluß vom 22. Mai 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein bis 1. Oktober 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Paul Peer, Bürgermeister G. Ragginger, K. Potusek, J. Wörndl Gemeinderäte. Druck: E. u. K. Müller, Salzburg. |
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Hallwang is a small municipality just north of Salzburg, and this note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921 when the post-imperial coinage supply collapsed entirely. Small communities were legally authorized to issue their own emergency fractional currency, and thousands did. E. u. K. Müller of Salzburg handled printing for numerous Salzburg-region municipalities during this period, making attribution straightforward for the series.
Four signatories — the Bürgermeister and three Gemeinderäte — were required to validate each denomination, a formality that did little to inspire public confidence but satisfied the bureaucratic requirements of the time.