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50 Heller Hallein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hallein (City of Hallein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜR 50 HELLER GILTIG HALLEIN 14.6.1920 VIZE-BÜRGER-MEISTER Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Hallein DER BÜRGERMEISTER: WIRD FÜR 50 HELLER VOM 1.12.-31.12.1920 EINGELÖST VIZE-BÜRGER-MEISTER R. KIESEL, SALZBURG |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a salt miner beneath a radiant sunburst within an arched arcade flanked by decorative columns; year '1920' at top centre, Hallein salt-cone shield cartouches at upper corners, denomination '50 FÜNFZIG HELLER' repeated at lower left and right above 'HALLEIN' in Gothic lettering. |
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Hallein's 50 Heller notgeld of 1920 was printed by R. Kiesel in Salzburg at a moment when the postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system had left Austrian municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency small change. The chronic shortage of coin — accelerated by metal hoarding and the dissolution of imperial supply chains — pushed hundreds of towns to commission local printers for fractional denominations that the central authorities could not or would not provide.
The designer credit to Felgel-Farnholz is worth noting: many notgeld pieces from the Salzburg region were anonymous jobbing work, and a named designer suggests the Stadtgemeinde treated this as something more than a purely functional stopgap.