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20 Heller Ranshofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ranshofen (Municipality of Ranshofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green and yellow-green, filled entirely by a bird's-eye-view engraved vignette of Kloster Ranshofen as it appeared in 1721, with the monastery church, cloister wings, walled courtyard and surrounding landscape rendered in fine letterpress line work. A heraldic cartouche bearing a bishop's mitre and a cross occupies the upper-left corner. The inscription 'Kloster Ranshofen 1721' runs across the upper margin in Gothic script, with the denomination '20 h' set in bold numerals at the upper right. |
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| Signature(s) | Georg Groß, Bürgermeister |
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Ranshofen is a small Upper Austrian village best known today as the site of a major aluminum smelter — but in 1920 it was an autonomous municipality issuing its own Notgeld like hundreds of other Austrian communities scrambling to fill the coin vacuum left by wartime metal shortages and postwar monetary chaos. The small-denomination Heller notes were a purely local stopgap, accepted by local merchants and theoretically redeemable by the issuing municipality.
Stampfl u. Co. in nearby Braunau am Inn handled the printing — a practical choice given proximity. Georg Groß signed as Bürgermeister.