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25 Heller Saalfelden, Brown issue
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Saalfelden (Market Town of Saalfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE SAALFELDEN BIRNHORN 25 DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT, WENN ER NICHT INNERHALB 3 MONATEN NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTLICHER AUFFORDERUNG BEI DER MARKTGEMEINDE-VORSTEHUNG SAALFELDEN EINGELÖST WIRD. NACHAHMUNG WIRD STRENGE BESTRAFT. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: SAALFELDEN, IM JULI 1920. Buchdruckerei Zaunrith, Salzburg. |
| Reverse description | Brown guilloche underprint with a central oval vignette enclosed within an ornate architectural frame, containing a black letterpress portrait of a man and a woman in traditional Salzburg regional dress (Tracht) of circa 1820. A flowing script legend curves across the top of the note giving the denomination in words. The lower margin carries the date '1820', the place name 'SAALFELDEN', and a partially visible inscription reading 'Bäurische und ... Tracht', with the designer's initials 'F.K.' at lower right. |
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One of hundreds of Notgeld issues produced by Austrian municipalities after the First World War, when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions effectively impossible. Saalfelden, a market town in the Salzburg region, commissioned Buchdruckerei Zaunrith — a local Salzburg printer — to produce this series rather than waiting on central authorities who had little interest in solving the problem at the village level.
The brown color distinguishes this from other Heller denominations in the Saalfelden Notgeld run, which used color coding to prevent confusion at point of sale. By 1920 these issues had a short intended lifespan; most municipalities recalled and destroyed their Notgeld once the national currency stabilized, making intact survivors more common in collector hands than in any archive.