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60 Heller Hofgastein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hofgastein (Market Town of Hofgastein, Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black silhouette vignette of a standing female figure, one arm raised toward a thermal waterfall at left, the other hand holding a staff, set against an Alpine mountain underprint. Denomination numerals '60' appear at lower left and right. Text panel at lower margin carries the redemption legend and Bürgermeister signature line. |
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| Obverse lettering | THERMALBAD HOFGASTEIN / GEGEN GICHT, RHEUMA, NERVEN- ALTERS- UND FRAUENLEIDEN. / 60 / 60 / DIE GEMEINDE HOFGASTEIN LÖST DIESE GUTSCHEINE BIS 31. DITZ 1920 IN GESWÄHRUNG EIN. / DER BÜRGERMEISTER: BACHAVER. / GRAPHISCHE KUNSTANSTALT F. FUCHS HOFGASTEIN |
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Hofgastein's 60 Heller Notgeld was produced locally by F. Fuchs, a Hofgastein printer — unusual even for Austrian municipal emergency money, where most small communities contracted out to Vienna or Graz. The Gemeinde issued these notes as the postwar coinage shortage left small transactions effectively impossible; the Austrian crown's collapse in purchasing power had driven copper and nickel coins out of everyday use entirely by 1920.
The Jaksc catalog number places this within the main Salzburg provincial Notgeld series. F. Fuchs issued at least one known series for the town, though print runs for hyper-local issues like this were rarely documented.