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50 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE AIGEN 50 HELLER DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DER GEMEINDE AIGEN BIS ZUM 31. OKTOBER 1920 IN GESETZLICHEM GELDE EINGELÖST. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: FRUHSTORFER REITER, FRAUENLOB GEMEINDERÄTE. DRUCK E.W. MÜLLER SALZBURG. |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in green on buff paper, carries the issuer name GEMEINDE AIGEN at the top within a border of fine vertical line ornaments, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in the four corners. A central octagonal vignette presents a landscape view of the Gaisberg hill and surrounding Alpine foothills, captioned 'GAISTEL ALPE MIT GAISBERG' within the frame. Below the vignette the denomination is restated as 'HER 50 PPR' in decorative Gothic lettering, with the printer's imprint 'DRUK E.W. MÜLLER SALZBURG' along the bottom margin. |
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One of hundreds of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues printed in the wake of the First World War, when coin shortages forced local governments to produce their own small-denomination emergency currency. Aigen — at the time a separate municipality on the southern edge of Salzburg — contracted Druckerei E.W. Müller, a local Salzburg printer, for the job. The result is entirely regional in character, produced for a community that would be absorbed into the city of Salzburg proper in 1935.
The JPR0013a designation places this among the earlier documented varieties for the issue. Heller-denomination Notgeld of this period typically circulated only within the issuing community and was redeemable for a limited window — many Austrian municipalities cancelled redemption by 1921.