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10 Heller Ried bei Mauthausen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ried bei Mauthausen (Municipality of Ried bei Mauthausen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress Notgeld note printed on pale paper, with an ornate foliate and scroll border enclosing the entire face. A central oval vignette presents a view of Schloss Marbach, a castle complex with a prominent tower and adjoining structures set against a lightly sketched landscape, captioned "SCHLOSS MARBACH" above the vignette. The denomination "10 HELLER 10" appears in bold capitals at the top, with "RIED BEI MAUTH." in large block lettering across the lower portion; the designer's name "Schimbeck" is inscribed in the lower right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 HELLER 10 SCHLOSS MARBACH RIED BEI MAUTH. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period emerged from a single practical problem: the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation after the First World War. Ried bei Mauthausen — a small Upper Austrian community on the Danube, best known historically for its proximity to the Mauthausen quarry — issued this 10 Heller piece as a local stopgap. The designer credited only as "Schimbeck" appears on several Upper Austrian notgeld issues of the same period, though no fuller biographical record has surfaced in the standard literature.
Most Gemeinde-issued notgeld was demonetized by late 1922 as the Austrian crown itself collapsed toward hyperinflation, making the redemption question largely academic.