20 Heller Krimml

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.