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10 Heller Rauris
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rauris (Market Town of Rauris, Federal State of Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a decorative border with side panels bearing alpine floral motifs, principally edelweiss, and small landscape vignettes in the upper corners. The upper portion carries the issuer's title in Gothic script across a horizontally ruled guilloche band, above a central text block in German setting out the legal basis and validity conditions of the note, signed by the Marktgemeinde-Vorstehung Rauris and the Bürgermeister, dated 15 August 1920. The denomination '10 HELLER' appears in bold numerals within square cartouches at the lower left and right corners, separated by a central edelweiss garland underprint, with the printer's imprint 'S. Marholz' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large, finely rendered pen-and-ink style panoramic vignette of the town of Rauris set in the Pinzgau valley, with the parish church and village rooftops in the middle ground and a dramatic alpine mountain range receding into the background. The scene is enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular border with a geometric maze-pattern frame. Below the vignette, a lower panel carries the inscription 'Rauris im Pinzgau, Salzbg.' centred between two decorative rosette stops. |
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Rauris is a mountain village in the Hohe Tauern, and its 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept rural Austria after the First World War left the Habsburg currency system in ruins. Small municipalities across Salzburg issued their own emergency paper in denominations too small to be worth counterfeiting — practical logic that partly explains how these notes actually circulated rather than being hoarded as novelties, which was the fate of much of the more decorative Notgeld issued elsewhere.
S. Marholz was a Salzburg printer active in this period; the firm handled a number of municipal issues across the region.