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25 Heller Saalfelden
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Saalfelden (Market Town of Saalfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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-VORSTEUNG SAALFELDEN EINGELÖST WIRD. NACHAHMUNG WIRD STRENGE BESTRAFT. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: SAALFELDEN, IM JULI 1920. Buchdruckerei Zaunrith, Salzburg. |
| Reverse description | Brown-toned reverse with a diamond-pattern guilloche underprint filling the field. A central oval vignette contains a woodcut-style portrait of two figures in traditional Salzburg regional dress (Bauerntracht), each wearing a characteristic regional hat, rendered in dark ink against a lighter ground. The denomination is inscribed in ornate German script across the upper margin, with the caption "Bäurische und bürgerliche Tracht," the historical date "1820," and the town name "SAALFELDEN" distributed around the lower edge of the oval; the initials "F.K." appear at lower right. |
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Saalfelden's 25 Heller Notgeld was issued in 1920, well into Austria's postwar inflation spiral that had already rendered small-denomination coinage effectively worthless through hoarding and melting. Hundreds of Austrian market towns issued their own emergency small change during this period, but Saalfelden's series was printed by Buchdruckerei Zaunrith in Salzburg — a regional commercial printer rather than a specialist banknote house, which shows in the typography-forward design typical of budget municipal issues.
Zaunrith handled a number of Salzburg-region Notgeld contracts in this period, making their imprint one of the more consistent identifiers for locally-produced Austrian municipal paper of 1919–1921.