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20 Heller Wald im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wald im Pinzgau (Municipality of Wald im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | C. R. Müller, Salzburg |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a scalloped decorative border with foliate corner ornaments. At the top, the issuer name 'Wald im Pinzgau' is rendered in bold Gothic script. A central octagonal vignette presents a line-drawn view of the local Gedächtniskapelle (memorial chapel) set against a mountain landscape, flanked on the left by silhouettes of a woman in traditional Tracht with a child, and on the right by a group of three children. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in large numerals at both the left and right of the central vignette, with a light blue-green underprint covering the background field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Zweite Auflage. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 3 Wochen nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung eingelöst wird Wald, Feber 1921. Wald i. P. Entwurf: F. X. Stadler · Druck: C. R. Müller in Salzburg |
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Wald im Pinzgau is a small Alpine village in the Salzburg district of Zell am See, and this note belongs to the enormous wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1922 as chronic small-change shortages left municipal governments improvising their own fractional currency. The 20 Heller denomination is telling — by 1921, inflation was already eroding the purchasing power of these emergency issues faster than they could be printed and distributed locally.
C. R. Müller of Salzburg handled a substantial number of regional Notgeld commissions during this period, and the designer credit to F. X. Stadler suggests a local artistic hand rather than a generic stock design.