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20 Heller Rannariedl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rannariedl (Municipality of Rannariedl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Light green notgeld note printed by letterpress on pale green paper, with a wavy-line guilloche border framing the entire design. A central oval vignette presents a detailed view of Rannariedl Castle above the Danube, surrounded by a scalloped cartouche. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large bold figures flanked by ribbon banners inscribed 'HELLER' at left and right. The issuer's name is set in an arched banner at the top, with a guarantee text and the issue date 'RANNARIEDL 20. JUNI 1920' along the lower margin, beneath which the Gemeindevorsteher's manuscript signature appears. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse enclosed by a simple double-rule rectangular border. The upper portion carries a two-line patriotic verse followed by the initial 'M.', and the centre bears the redemption declaration in serif type stating that the Municipality of Rannariedl will redeem the voucher in legal tender until 31 December 1920, with the place and date 'Rannariedl, 20. Juni 1920.' printed in bold below. An anti-counterfeiting warning is set in a single line at the foot of the text block. |
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Rannariedl is a small market town on the south bank of the Danube in Upper Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922. With the old imperial coinage in severe shortage after the collapse of Austria-Hungary, thousands of local authorities issued their own emergency paper — legally permissible under transitional arrangements that the new republic's financial administration was too stretched to enforce strictly.
Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie was a Vienna commercial printer responsible for a substantial portion of the Austrian municipal Notgeld output, which accounts for the relatively polished production quality on notes nominally issued by villages with no banking infrastructure. Josef Möß signed as Gemeindevorsteher — mayor — the only formal guarantee behind the instrument's value.