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50 Heller Strasswalchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Strasswalchen (Municipality of Strasswalchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned Notgeld voucher with a divided vignette: to the left, a townscape of Strasswalchen with a prominent church tower and surrounding buildings; to the right, a tall memorial column set among bare trees in a public square. Centered between the two scenes, the large numeral '50' is printed in bold Gothic script above the denomination inscription 'fünfzig Heller' in italic lettering. Below, a broad decorative band carries the issuing authority legend in flowing Gothic script. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned reverse with the municipal coat of arms of Strasswalchen at left — a shield bearing a diagonal band with three horseshoes, inscribed 'STRASSWALCHEN' along its base. To the right, a block of typeset German text states the redemption conditions, the place and date of issue (Straßwalchen (Salzburg), am 24. April 1920), the title 'Die Bürgermeister:' followed by the two signatories' names, and a final anti-counterfeiting warning in bold Gothic type. |
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Strasswalchen is a small market town in Salzburg's Flachgau district, and this 50 Heller note is a product of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave — the municipal emergency currency issued between roughly 1919 and 1922 when chronic coin shortages left local economies effectively paralyzed. Hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden printed their own, and Strasswalchen was no exception. The signatories, Franz Leikermoser and the official recorded only as "Hr. Traugott," were almost certainly local municipal functionaries rather than bank officers.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1047a places this firmly within the documented Salzburg regional issues, though surviving examples from small Flachgau municipalities tend to be scarcer than the heavily collected Tyrolean and Viennese pieces.