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50 Heller Krimml
| Issuer | Gemeinde Krimml (Municipality of Krimml) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note on a vertically striped underprint, with a central vignette of the Krimml parish church and its tall steeple set against an Alpine mountain backdrop, framed by ornate scrollwork. Circular denomination cartouches reading '50' with 'HELLER' in circular legend appear at upper left and upper right. The issuer's name 'KRIMML' is inscribed in bold capitals at the top within a decorative arch, while two columns of German text flanking the vignette state the municipality's guarantee of redemption; a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears at lower right. The printer's imprint 'DRUCK E. u. K. MÜLLER SALZBURG' is printed in the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Krimml 50 Heller 50 Heller |
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Krimml is a village in the Salzburg uplands best known for its waterfalls, but in 1920 it was also one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced into emergency note issuance when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small change almost entirely absent from circulation. These Notgeld issues were a bottom-up response to a top-down failure — the new Austrian republic simply could not supply adequate coinage fast enough.
E. u. K. Müller of Salzburg handled a substantial volume of local Notgeld printing across the region during this period. The engraver credit to L. Pech is worth noting — not a name that surfaces frequently in the philatelic literature.