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20 Heller Radstadt
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Radstadt |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Grey-blue notgeld printed in letterpress on white paper, with an elaborate scrollwork border framing the entire face. A central oval vignette presents a view of Radstadt's townscape with a church steeple and tower rooftops set against a floral background. The denomination numeral '20' appears in bold at both left and right within decorative cartouches, while the issuer inscription and value are given in German blackletter script below the vignette, accompanied by handwritten authorisation signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Radstadt Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller |
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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.