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20 Heller
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Ried im Innkreis |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein / der Stadtgemeinde Ried über / 20 Heller 20 / (zwanzig) / zur Behebung der herrschenden Hartgeldnot gibt die Stadtgemeinde Ried auf Grund des Gemeindeausschußbeschlusses vom 11. Jänner 1920 Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von fünfzigtausend Kronen aus. Diese Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 1. Aug. bis einschl. 31. Aug. 1920 bei der städtischen Kasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. (Translation: Voucher of the Municipality of Ried for 20 Heller (twenty) / To alleviate the prevailing shortage of hard currency, the Municipality of Ried, on the basis of the municipal council resolution of 11 January 1920, issues vouchers up to a total amount of fifty thousand Kronen. These vouchers will be redeemed in legal tender at the municipal treasury from 1 August to 31 August 1920 inclusive.) |
| Signature(s) | Hans Leitgeb (Bürgermeister) |
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Ried im Innkreis issued this Heller notgeld in 1920 as part of the broader Austrian municipal emergency money phenomenon that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The Austro-Hungarian crown had disintegrated as a viable currency in the immediate postwar years, and hundreds of small towns across Upper Austria printed their own fractional notes to cover the catastrophic coin shortage — not as a political gesture, but as a practical necessity for daily commerce.
Hans Leitgeb signed as Bürgermeister, placing direct municipal authority behind the issue. Small-town notgeld from this region was produced in enormous variety but often limited print runs, and the 1920 Upper Austrian series is generally better documented than the earlier 1919 issues from the same district.