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20 Heller Rauris
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rauris (Market Town of Rauris) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 15 November 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark green on cream paper, the reverse is divided into two equal landscape vignettes set within a single ruled and notched border frame, each rendered in fine engraved line work. The left panel presents a dramatic view of the Kitzlochklamm gorge with sheer rock faces, coniferous trees, and a cascading waterfall, while the right panel offers a panoramic alpine view of the Schareck as seen from the Sonnblick, with snow-covered peaks, glacial slopes, and a cloud-filled sky, signed 'S. Narholt' at lower right. Caption plaques beneath each panel identify the scenes as 'Kitzlochklamm' and 'Schareck vom Sonnblick' respectively. |
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| Signature(s) | Sommerer |
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Rauris is a small alpine market town in Salzburg province, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian municipalities after the First World War left the new republic's coinage supply in near-total collapse. Local authorities were legally permitted — and practically compelled — to issue their own small-denomination emergency currency to keep commerce moving at the village level.
E. & K. Müller handled a considerable volume of Austrian Notgeld printing during this period, and the designer credit to S. Narholt is worth noting — local series of this kind frequently employed regional illustrators rather than established commercial artists. The single Sommerer signature indicates authorization by a municipal official, almost certainly a Bürgermeister or equivalent.