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50 Heller Saalfelden
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Saalfelden (Market Town of Saalfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE SAALFELDEN SAALFELDEN DIESER GUTSCHEIN VER- LIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT, WENN ER NICHT INNER- HALB 3 MONATEN NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTLICH. AUFFORDERUNG BEI DER MARKTGEMEINDE- VOR- STEHUNG SAALFELDEN EINGELÖST WIRD. NACHAHMUNG WIRD STRENGE BESTRAFT. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: 50 SAALFELDEN, IM JULI 1920. Buchdruckerei Zeunrith, Salzburg. |
| Reverse description | Olive-green and dark brown letterpress print on white paper. A central oval vignette presents a bust portrait of a woman in traditional Salzburgian Tracht (folk costume), wearing a wide-brimmed hat, rendered in fine line engraving style. The denomination title Fünfzig Heller appears in decorative Gothic script across the top, flanked by scrollwork and guilloche-style underprint. The denomination numerals 50 h appear in circular cartouches at lower left and right, with the issuer name SAALFELDEN inscribed below the central vignette alongside the initials F.K. |
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Saalfelden's 50 Heller Notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of Austrian municipal emergency money printed between 1919 and 1921, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities scrambling to fund basic commerce. The Marktgemeinde commissioned Buchdruckerei Zeunrith in Salzburg — a regional commercial press, not a security printer — which accounts for the relatively modest production quality typical of provincial Austrian Notgeld from this period.
The Jaksc/Pick suffix "b" indicates a recognized variant within the Saalfelden 50 Heller issue, most likely differentiated by a color or paper stock variation from the "a" type.