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75 Heller Oberalm
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberalm (Municipality of Oberalm) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and violet on cream paper, framed by a fine violet lace-pattern border. Symmetrical vignettes of stylised pine cones or hop clusters flank the central field, which carries a large numeral '75' in violet over a finely ruled brown guilloche underprint. The denomination 'HELLER' appears in white letters on a solid brown rectangular panel below the numeral, while the issuer inscription runs across the top and the place name 'OBERALM' is rendered along the lower margin; a small artist's signature and date appear at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Oberalm löst diesen Schein bis zum 15. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Der Bürgermeister Gemeinderat 2. Gemeinderätin |
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Austrian municipal notgeld at its most local — Oberalm is a small market community in Salzburg province, and like hundreds of similar parishes it began issuing small-denomination paper in 1920 to address the chronic coin shortage that had plagued Austria since the war years. The 75 Heller value is slightly unusual within the notgeld denominations favored by Salzburg-area communes, most of which clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller.
These pieces were printed in very limited quantities for purely local use and were rarely accepted even one village over.