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99 Heller Oberalm
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberalm (Municipality of Oberalm) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed entirely in red on cream paper and divided into two vertical panels within a fine letterpress border. The left panel carries the issuer's name in bold block lettering arranged over four lines, flanked above and below by decorative rosette vignettes formed of small circular motifs within a diamond-lattice frame. The right panel is dominated by the large numeral '99' rendered in bold red over a radiating guilloche underprint with stylised leaf and branch motifs; the denomination word 'HELLER' appears beneath in bold capitals, and the artist's signature 'Zickert 1920' is inscribed in the lower right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE OBERALM 99 HELLER |
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Oberalm is a small Salzburg village — in 1920, it had no business issuing currency at all, and yet here it did, like hundreds of Austrian municipalities scrambling to plug the change shortage left by the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The Kleingeldersatz emergency, as it was known, produced an almost absurd proliferation of local Notgeld, and 99 Heller was a denomination that appears just often enough across Austrian municipal issues to suggest it was a deliberate attempt to avoid rounding up to a full Krone.
The designer credit to Zickert is uncommon — most village-level Austrian Notgeld went unsigned or bore only a printer's imprint.