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20 Heller Salzburg
| Issuer | Stadt Salzburg (City of Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in dark red and ochre on cream paper. The central vignette presents a view of the Salzburg Glockenspiel tower, framed within a decorative cartouche with script lettering above. Flanking the central vignette are two symmetrical oval panels, each carrying the denomination '20 HELLER' in bold letterpress, set against a dotted guilloche underprint with ornamental corner devices. |
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| Obverse lettering | Salzburg Glockenspiel 20 HELLER KARL SCHONSWETTER |
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Stadt Salzburg issued a raft of Heller Notgeld denominations in 1920 as small-change shortages persisted well after the armistice — Austria's coin metal had been systematically redirected during the war, and the problem did not resolve itself quickly with peace. Graphia's local printing shows in the modest typographic execution; this was functional municipal paper, not a prestige commission.
Schönswetter designed several pieces in the Salzburg series. The 20 Heller sits at the lower end of a range that municipalities across the new Austrian republic were printing by the hundreds of thousands during this period, many of which were redeemed and pulped within months.