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50 Heller Hallstatt
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Hallstatt (Market Town of Hallstatt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is dominated by a detailed letterpress vignette of the Hallstatt townscape set against a dramatic Alpine backdrop, framed within a hexagonal border. The heading 'Gutschein' appears in Gothic script on a scroll at the top left, while the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' is inscribed on a scroll at the bottom. To the right, within an oval cartouche, the denomination numeral '50' is set beneath a shield surmounted by crossed hammers, the whole accompanied by the issuing authority text, validity date 'Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920', and facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. The entire composition is enclosed within a decorative foliate border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is centred on a large heraldic vignette of the Hallstatt municipal coat of arms — a quartered shield with a salt pan and mining tools surmounted by crossed hammers — rendered within an ornate cartouche with foliate scrollwork. The denomination words 'FÜNFZIG' and 'HELLER' appear in bold capitals in black panels at upper left and upper right respectively, with the numeral '50' repeated at all four corners. Flanking the central arms are two small vignettes: at lower left a miner at the rock face, and at lower right a salt worker with a vessel. Two columns of text provide the legal redemption notice and total issue amount, and the issuer's name 'MARKTGEMEINDE HALLSTATT' runs in capitals along the bottom margin. |
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Austrian Notgeld from this period was municipal emergency money, issued when small coin shortages became acute in the years following World War I. Hallstatt — a salt-mining settlement continuously occupied since the Bronze Age — issued these 50 Heller notes through its Marktgemeinde authority as a purely local stopgap. The town's economic isolation, wedged between the Dachstein massif and the Hallstätter See, made dependence on centrally supplied coinage particularly impractical.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR series catalogues a large volume of Upper Austrian Notgeld from 1919–1921, most of it printed in small runs by regional printers with no security features whatsoever.