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50 Heller Salzburg - Landesverband der Kriegsinvaliden
| Issuer | Landeshauptstelle der Kriegsinvaliden-, Witwen- und Waisen-Organisation des Landes Salzburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and black letterpress Notgeld note with a central oval vignette of a standing boy in uniform, flanked by spiral guilloche ornaments on either side. The background carries a panoramic landscape view with mountains to the left and the Hohensalzburg fortress silhouette to the right. The denomination '50 HELLER' appears in bold numerals at each of the four corners, with the issuer and city name lettered in large display script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1914-18 Gutschein über 50 Heller Die Landeshauptstelle der Kriegsinvaliden-, Witwen- und Waisen-Organisation des Landes Salzburg in Salzburg haftet für diesen Gutschein mit ihrem ganzen Vereinsvermögen und ihr angeschlossenen Wirtschaftsabteilungen bis zum 31. Oktober 1920. Salzburg, am 1. August 1920. |
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The Landeshauptstelle der Kriegsinvaliden-, Witwen- und Waisen-Organisation des Landes Salzburg was not a bank or a municipality — it was the provincial welfare organization for war invalids, widows, and orphans of Salzburg. That an institution of this kind was issuing its own emergency currency in 1920 says everything about how completely Austria's monetary infrastructure had collapsed in the post-war years. Notgeld issued by welfare bodies is unusual even within the already chaotic Austrian emergency money record.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0861 covers this Salzburg series, with the 50 Heller being among the lower values.