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20 Heller Saalfelden
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Saalfelden (Market Municipality of Saalfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0859a-20 |
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| Reverse description | Brown and black letterpress reverse with a fine guilloche underprint in a diamond lattice pattern. A central oval vignette contains a half-length portrait of a man and a woman in traditional Salzburg regional Tracht costume, rendered in a woodcut-style illustration. The denomination is inscribed at the top in Gothic script as 'Zwanzig Heller', with the issuer name 'SAALFELDEN' below the vignette and the word 'Tracht' noted at the left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Zwanzig Heller Tracht SAALFELDEN |
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Saalfelden's Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian municipal notgeld issued after the First World War, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to produce small-denomination emergency scrip. The market municipality issued these through Buchdruckerei Launith in Salzburg — a regional commercial printer, not a security press — which is exactly what you'd expect from a small Salzburg Land community working within tight postwar budgets.
The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR0859a-20 indicates this is one of multiple denominations in the Saalfelden series. Collector interest in Austrian Gemeinde notgeld varies sharply by locality and series completeness; Saalfelden issues are collectible but not among the scarcer municipal emissions from the period.