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20 Heller Grossraming
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grossraming (Municipality of Grossraming) |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted letterpress vignette of a stone arch bridge spanning a river gorge set within a wooded alpine landscape, printed in grey-green. Overprinted in bold red letterpress are the issuer name 'Großraming' and the denomination numeral '20' at lower left and 'HELLER' at lower right, with the title legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde' at upper centre. The overall design is characteristic of Austrian Notgeld emergency currency of the post-World War I period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZWANZIG 20 HELLER Die Gemeinde Großraming haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei dem Gemeindeamte einzulösen. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeisterstell v. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Grossraming is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during and after World War I when coin metal was requisitioned and copper and nickel disappeared from circulation almost entirely. The 20 Heller denomination sits in the most heavily used range of these issues, covering everyday transactions that coins had previously handled.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was typically authorized locally and printed in small runs, often by regional printers with no particular numismatic pedigree. Survival rates vary enormously by commune — some issues were redeemed and pulped, others simply forgotten in drawers.