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50 Heller Salzburg
| Issuer | Stadt Salzburg (City of Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Salzburg über Fünfzig Heller Derselbe wird bis zur Einreichung bei den Kassen der Salzburger Sparkassa in gesetzlichem Bargeldt eingelöst. Nachahmung ist strafbar. Gemeinderat Bürgermeister Gemeinderat E. & K. MÜLLER |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 50 |
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Austrian Notgeld of this period was produced in extraordinary quantities — thousands of municipalities issued their own small-denomination emergency money between 1919 and 1922 to address the chronic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Salzburg's city-issued 50 Heller from 1920 is a product of that wave, printed by E. & K. Müller, a Salzburg-based firm responsible for a number of regional Notgeld runs in the period.
These municipal issues were redeemable in theory but often weren't — many towns simply stopped honoring them once the crisis passed, leaving large quantities unredeemed. Collector demand during the early 1920s actually drove some municipalities to issue deliberately decorative "series" Notgeld for sale rather than circulation.