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75 Heller Oberalm
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberalm (Municipality of Oberalm) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE 75 HELLER OBERALM |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and ochre-gold on cream paper, framed by a blue diamond-pattern border. The left half is divided into four quadrants, each bearing a stylised botanical vignette of broad leaves rendered in ochre, with a central vertical panel of fine parallel-line guilloche work. The right half carries the redemption text in blue script, beneath which appear three manuscript signatures above their respective role designations. |
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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.