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50 Heller Saalfelden, Brown issue
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Saalfelden (Market Town of Saalfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown and black letterpress-printed notgeld on white paper, with a wave-pattern guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A central rectangular vignette presents a panoramic view of Saalfelden town set against an Alpine mountain backdrop, captioned 'SAALFELDEN' above, and flanked by two wreath-encircled heraldic shields of the market town. The bold header 'GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE SAALFELDEN' runs across the top, with the large numeral '50' anchoring the lower centre between columns of redemption text, the date 'SAALFELDEN, IM JULI 1920' at lower left, and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Heller 50 h Tracht SAALFELDEN 1920 F.K. |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced in the chaotic years following the collapse of the Habsburg empire, when the new Republic's monetary system was so disrupted that municipalities, businesses, and even farms printed their own emergency small change. The Marktgemeinde Saalfelden issued this brown 50 Heller through Buchdruckerei Zaunrith in Salzburg — a regional printer responsible for a number of Salzburg-area Notgeld commissions during this period.
Saalfelden issued multiple color variants within its Heller series, the brown designation distinguishing this from parallel issues in the same denomination. Zaunrith's work on small-denomination municipal notes from this region tends toward economical two-color printing with local heraldic or landscape references, though the specifics here sit in the catalog imagery rather than here.
These notes were demonetized once the Austrian crown stabilization efforts took hold in the early 1920s.