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25 Heller Saalfelden
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Saalfelden (Market Town of Saalfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0859b-25 |
| Obverse description | Green and dark brown Notgeld note with a wavy-line guilloche underprint forming the background. A central rectangular vignette presents a landscape view of the Birnhorn mountain, labelled "BIRNHORN" above the rocky massif. Flanking the vignette on left and right are the arms of Saalfelden within wreath cartouches. The denomination numeral "25" appears in bold below the central vignette, with a two-column redemption text on either side, and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at lower right. The imprint of Buchdruckerei Zaunrith, Salzburg appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE SAALFELDEN BIRNHORN 25 DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT, WENN ER NICHT INNERHALB 3 MONATEN NACH AUFFORDERUNG BEI DER MARKTGEMEINDE VORSTELLUNG SAALFELDEN EINGELÖST WIRD. NACHAHMUNG WIRD STRENGE BESTRAFT. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: SAALFELDEN, IM JULI 1920. Buchdruckerei Zaunrith, Salzburg. |
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Saalfelden's Heller notes were part of the vast Austrian Notgeld wave that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg economy — thousands of municipalities, down to tiny market towns, printed their own emergency fractional currency because the central supply of small change had simply ceased to function. Zaunrith was a competent regional print house in Salzburg, and their work on these notes is honest journeyman printing: serviceable, locally sourced, unsentimental.
The JPR0859b designation indicates this is a series variant, meaning Saalfelden issued more than one version — differences between variants are typically in color or minor typographic details, worth checking closely against the 'a' type.