Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
75 Heller Oberalm
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberalm (Municipality of Oberalm) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and dark brown on cream paper, enclosed within a red lozenge-pattern border. The central vignette carries a hatched rectangular underprint over which the large numeral '75' is printed in bold red, with the denomination legend 'HELLER' set in a dark brown panel immediately below. Flanking the central value panel on both sides are stylised Art Nouveau seed-pod or pine-cone motifs rendered in dark brown. The issuer legend runs along the top margin and the place name 'OBERALM' appears in the lower margin, with a small artist's signature and the date '1920' noted in the lower right corner. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Oberalm löst diesen Schein bis zum 15. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein Der Bürgermeister Gemeinderai 2. Gemeinderan |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Austrian municipal notgeld of this scale presents an almost comically practical problem: at 47 × 37 mm, the thing is barely larger than a postage stamp, a consequence of wartime and postwar paper shortages that forced municipalities to print emergency currency at whatever size the available stock allowed. Oberalm, a small village in Salzburg province, issued its notgeld under the same collapse of central monetary authority that pushed hundreds of Austrian communes to print their own fractional currency between 1919 and 1921.
The 75-Heller denomination is among the more unusual fractional values — most communes defaulted to round figures.