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20 Heller Ranshofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ranshofen (Municipality of Ranshofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Ranshofen Gutschein Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Ranshofen haftet für dieses Notgeld und löst selbes nur vom 15. bis 30. Novbr. 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde ein. Georg Groß, Bürgermeister. Druck: Stampfl u. Co., Braunau. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kloster Ranshofen 1721 20 h |
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Ranshofen was a small Upper Austrian village best known, if at all, for its aluminum works — but in 1920 it was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced to print its own small-denomination emergency money after the postwar coinage collapse left the country essentially without circulating Heller coins. These Notgeld issues were a local solution to a national failure, authorized under provisions that gave communes the right to issue temporary scrip redeemable against their own funds.
Stampfl u. Co. in nearby Braunau handled a number of these small municipal jobs. Bürgermeister Georg Groß signed as guarantor of redemption — a promise most communes honored, though the window for exchange was typically short.