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20 Heller Krimml
| Issuer | Gemeinde Krimml (Municipality of Krimml) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0483a-20 |
| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown on cream paper with a vertical red stripe underprint, the note centres on a finely engraved vignette of the Krimml parish church with its tall steeple set against an Alpine mountain backdrop. Two circular denomination cartouches, each reading '20' within a 'HELLER' legend, flank the vignette at left and right, framed by ornate scrollwork borders. The place name 'KRIMML' arches above the central vignette in bold lettering, with the mayor's manuscript signature and printed authorisation texts distributed to either side. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Heller 20 20 KRIMML 20 |
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Krimml is a village of a few hundred people at the head of the Salzach valley, best known for its tiered waterfalls. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency currency in 1920 is less surprising than it sounds — by that point, Austria's postwar coin shortage had pushed hundreds of Gemeinden into printing their own Notgeld, and the practice had become almost routine across Salzburg province.
E. & K. Müller handled a substantial volume of these local commissions out of Salzburg. The designer credit to L. Pech is one of the few individuating details in an otherwise crowded field of similar small-denomination issues from this period.