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50 Heller Thalgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Thalgau (Municipality of Thalgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | HELLER 50 HELLER THALGAU DIESE GUTSCHEINE : GELTEN NUR BIS : ENDE SEPTEMBER 1 9 2 0 DER BÜRGERMEISTER: FRANZ HUEBER |
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| Reverse lettering | THALGAU, Eingang in's Salzkammergut, lieblicher, aufstrebender Ort, bedeutende Holzindustrie, Maschinenfabrik, Zinnoxydwerke, solide Geschäfte, gute Gasthäuser. An der Ischlerbahn gelegen, herrliche Umgebung, lohnenswerte Ausflüge: Fuschlsee, Mondsee, Ruine Wartenfels. — Post, Telephon, Telegraph. Druck von E. u. K. Müller, Salzburg. |
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Thalgau is a small market town in the Salzburger Flachgau, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921 as small coin vanished from circulation almost entirely. The municipal authority — not a bank — signed off on this, which is precisely the point: by 1920, towns of any size were printing their own emergency fractions rather than wait for Vienna to solve a problem it showed no urgency in addressing.
E. u. K. Müller was a Salzburg commercial printer, not a specialist security firm. The Franz Hueber signature is a municipal official, not a banking signatory — a detail that quietly underscores how far monetary authority had devolved at the local level.