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20 Heller Radstadt
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Radstadt |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-black on white paper within a dense floral and foliate border. At centre, a circular vignette encloses the Radstadt town arms — a fortified gate tower with a cartwheel above — surrounded by a toothed gear-like frame. The denomination '20 Heller' is repeated in Gothic script on either side of the central vignette, with a three-line redemption notice in German script below, and an anti-counterfeiting warning in blackletter along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 Heller Heller 20 Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dez. 1920 bei der Stadtkasse in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft. |
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Radstadt is a small market town in the Salzburg region of Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it resorted to printing its own emergency paper during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria following World War I. These Heller-denomination Notgeld issues filled a gap that the central monetary authorities simply couldn't — or wouldn't — address fast enough at the local level.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch-Pick Austrian Notgeld cataloguing system. The ".2" suffix indicates a second variety within the 20 Heller denomination, distinguished from the first by some detail of printing, color, or text — the specifics vary by locality and are worth verifying against the Jaksch plates directly.