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75 heller Oberalm
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberalm (Municipality of Oberalm) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note printed in dark blue ink on cream paper, entirely in Fraktur (blackletter) script. The face is divided into three horizontal panels: the uppermost bears the word 'Notgeld' with each letter enclosed in an individual ruled box alongside a series letter 'G'; the central panel carries the issuing authority 'Gemeinde Oberalm', the validity date 'Giltig bis 15. November 1920', and the mayor's authorisation 'Der Bürgermeister: M. Klappacher'; the lower panel states the denomination 'Heller 75 Heller' flanked by ruled borders. No pictorial vignette is present; the design relies entirely on ruled rectangular frames and letterpress typography. |
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| Signature(s) | M. Klappacher |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from the post-WWI economic collapse, when small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from circulation and hundreds of local authorities printed their own emergency scrip to keep commerce moving. Oberalm is a small village in Salzburg's Tennengau district, and notes from minor rural municipalities like this one were typically printed in short runs — often by local printers with no specialist banknote experience — which accounts for the considerable variation in paper quality and registration found across the series.
Klappacher's signature identifies the authorizing official rather than a bank officer; no central banking oversight applied to this class of issue.