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50 Heller Hallein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hallein (City of Hallein) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld voucher with a rope-style border enclosing three panels: the left and right panels each bear the large numeral '50' above the inscription 'HELLER', while the central vignette shows a salt carrier in traditional dress bearing a load on his back, a reference to Hallein's historic salt-mining industry. The issuer's name 'STADTGEMEINDE HALLEIN' runs across the top in bold capitals, and a multi-line redemption text below the vignette panels states the terms of acceptance and the date of issue, signed by Bürgermeister Neumayr. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE HALLEIN 50 HELLER DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD AN DER STÄDT. KASSE FÜR FÜNFZIG HELLER IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN UND VOM 1.–31. JÄNNER 1920 IN GESETZL. WÄHRUNG EINGELÖST HALLEIN, 1. Oktober 1919 Der Bürgermeister: NEUMAYR |
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Hallein's 50 Heller notgeld of 1919 was printed by the town's own school workshop — the Schülerwerkstätte — a detail that separates it from the commercially produced emergency currency flooding Austria at the same moment. The immediate postwar collapse of the krone's purchasing power and the near-total disappearance of small coinage from circulation forced hundreds of Austrian municipalities to issue their own scrip, but few had it made by students.
The Schülerwerkstätte attribution raises genuine questions about print consistency across the run. Collector copies show variation in ink density that likely reflects workshop conditions rather than deliberate differentiation between series.