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10 Heller Ried im Traunkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis (Municipality of Ried im Traunkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis 10 Heller Die Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Ried i. Tr., 1. April 1920 Der Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in purple on plain paper, is framed by two decorative pillar motifs on either side, each surmounted and based by rectangular panels bearing the numeral '10'. A dialect verse in five lines occupies the upper centre, followed below by a bold Gothic-script heading and a redemption notice stating that vouchers totalling 52,000 Kronen are issued, redeemable until 31 October 1920 at the Gemeindekassa. A forgery warning appears at the foot, with a small printer's monogram at lower right. |
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Ried im Traunkreis is a small Upper Austrian market town, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left the country chronically short of small change. Thousands of communes issued their own emergency scrip between roughly 1919 and 1922, and the quality and ambition of these issues varied enormously — from crude rubber-stamped slips to elaborately printed collector pieces.
The Jaksch catalog reference places this firmly in the documented Upper Austrian municipal series. Whether it circulated heavily or was quickly hoarded by the collectors who were already chasing Notgeld systematically by 1920 is the question that determines survival rates for virtually the entire category.