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10 Heller Ruppersthal
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ruppersthal (Municipality of Ruppersthal) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Ruppersthal über Zehn Heller gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 DRUCK DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR GRAPHISCHE INDUSTRIE, WIEN VI. |
| Reverse description | Plain white reverse with no vignette or underprint, printed entirely in black letterpress. An aphoristic couplet appears at upper right, followed by the bold heading 'NOTGELD' and the issuer line 'DER GEMEINDE RUPPERSTHAL, N.-Ö.' above the denomination 'ÜBER 10 HELLER'. A block of text in Roman type sets out the redemption conditions, concluding with a counterfeit warning. |
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Ruppersthal is a small wine-growing village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These local issues were authorized under wartime and post-war necessity, not by the central banking apparatus, and the Gemeinde took on full liability for redemption. Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie was a Vienna-based printing house that handled a substantial volume of these municipal Notgeld commissions, which explains the consistent quality across many otherwise obscure parish issues.
Ruppersthal's series is among the more modestly documented of the Lower Austrian village issues.