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50 Heller Anif - 3. Auflage
| Issuer | Gemeinde Anif (Municipality of Anif) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown ink on a pale beige paper ground covered with a fine cross-hatched guilloche underprint. The word GUTSCHEIN appears in bold decorative letterpress at the top, flanked by ornamental scroll devices. The large numeral '50' dominates the centre, set against a radiating sunburst vignette, with the denomination HELLER inscribed below in matching display type. Two columns of text in smaller script flank the central numeral left and right, stating the issuing authority and redemption conditions; the issuing municipality GEMEINDE ANIF is lettered in an ornate cartouche at the foot. The edition designation 'III. Auflage' appears at lower left, and the printer's imprint 'DRUCK E. v. W. MÖLLER SALZBURG' is printed along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet-purple ink on the same beige paper, with a cross-hatched guilloche border framing the entire field. A central vignette, set within an ornate shield-shaped cartouche, presents a linear view of Schloss Hellbrunn — its monumental gateway with flanking towers and obelisks rendered in fine pen-and-ink style, with the palace visible through the arch in the distance. The denomination '50 HELLER' appears in two circular guilloche roundels at lower left and right, with the numeral '50' additionally placed at upper left and upper right corners. The issuer's name GEMEINDE ANIF is lettered in a decorative banner cartouche at the foot, and the caption 'SCHLOSS HELLBRUNN' is inscribed below the central vignette. The designer's name 'HÜTTER' appears in the bottom margin. |
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Anif is a small municipality just south of Salzburg, and this third-issue Heller note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria in the early postwar years. With coins effectively absent from circulation, hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own Notgeld — Anif among them. The three-issue sequence for this denomination suggests locally sustained demand well into 1920, by which point the federal government was already beginning to reassert monetary control.
The printer, E. v. W. Möller of Salzburg, handled numerous regional issues from this period. Designer credit to Hütter is atypical enough to note — most small-municipality Notgeld went uncredited.