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5 Kronen 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 obverse is printed in reddish-brown and violet tones on cream paper, with two octagonal vignettes flanking a central cartouche. The left vignette presents a detailed line-art view of the Rathaus street scene, captioned 'RATHAUS' below, while the right vignette shows a riverside view of Salzburg's old town architecture, captioned 'IM STEIN'. At centre, the numeral '5' is set within an ornate scrollwork cartouche, with the denomination legend 'KRONEN' in bold Gothic letterpress below, and the issuing authority legend 'NOTGELD DER STADT SALZBURG' arched across the top margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD · DER · STADT · SALZBURG 5 KRONEN RATHAUS IM STEIN |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from 1920 occupies a peculiar administrative space — these were not banknotes in any formal sense, but emergency fractional currency issued by local authorities filling a vacuum left by the collapse of Habsburg monetary infrastructure. Stadt Salzburg was among the more prolific issuers, and R. Kiesel was the obvious local choice, a Salzburg printing house that handled much of the city's commercial and municipal print work.
Dr. Preis served as Bürgermeister during a genuinely difficult transitional period — Salzburg had only formally become part of the new Austrian Republic in 1920, and the city briefly agitated for annexation to Bavaria before that option was foreclosed by the peace settlement.