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20 Heller Rattenberg
| Issuer | Stadt Rattenberg in Tirol (City of Rattenberg) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and brown on cream paper, the obverse carries the issuer's title in Gothic blackletter script within a banner at top. The central field presents the denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' in large red Gothic lettering flanking a circular guilloche medallion bearing the numeral '20', with a decorative wheel or compass rose vignette with serpentine motifs to the left and the Tyrolean eagle coat of arms to the right, both set within crosshatched guilloche panels. The numeral '20' repeats in small ornamental cartouches at the lower corners, with the printer's imprint at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown and red on cream paper, the reverse presents to the left an intaglio-style vignette of a bearded male figure in period costume, set within an oval frame entwined with rope-like decorative borders and a red-and-white striped ribbon. The abbreviated denomination '20 Hl.' appears in bold at upper right, below which a text panel in Gothic script carries the official payment declaration, validity inscription, and three manuscript signature lines for the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Stadtkammerer, with the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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Rattenberg, on the Inn River in Tyrol, holds the distinction of being Austria's smallest town — a fact that makes its wartime emergency currency all the more striking. These Heller notes were issued as Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage of the First World War, when hoarding of metal coinage left ordinary commerce nearly paralysed across the Habsburg provinces.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled production for numerous Tyrolean municipal issues of this period, which means the printing quality is competent but not exceptional — local job-shop work rather than anything approaching specialist banknote production.