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50 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on buff paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border of stylised vine and thorn motifs running along all four edges. The issuer name GEMEINDE AIGEN appears at the top in bold letterpress, above a large central vignette containing the denomination numeral '50' within an ornate circular surround, with the word 'Heller' rendered in elaborate Gothic script below. A multi-line redemption text, the signatures of the Bürgermeister and municipal councillors, and the printer's imprint 'Druck E.W. Müller Salzburg' occupy the lower portion of the note. |
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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. |
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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.