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20 Heller Rauris
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rauris (Market Town of Rauris, Federal State of Salzburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a decorative letterpress style with two small landscape vignettes in the upper corners — a forest scene at left and a mountain view at right — both rendered in brown ink within ruled frames. Flanking the central text panel are tall vertical borders filled with engraved edelweiss blossoms and foliage. The denomination '20 HELLER' appears in bold type within framed cartouches at the lower left and right corners, separated by a horizontal band of edelweiss garlands, while the heading 'Gutschein d. Marktgemeinde Rauris' is set in decorative Gothic script across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein d. Marktgemeinde Rauris. Zur Behebung des herrschenden Hartgeldmangels gibt die Marktgemeinde Rauris in Salzburg für die Zeit vom 15. August bis 15. November 1920, auf Grund des Ausschußbeschlusses vom 10. Juli 1920, Gutscheine aus. Sie haftet für deren Einlösung innerhalb drei Wochen nach Ablauf der Gültigkeit und hat zu diesem Zwecke den Gegenwert bei einer inländischen Bank sichergestellt. Marktgemeinde-Vorstehung Rauris äm 15. August 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Sommerer. 20 HELLER |
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Rauris is a small market town in the Salzburg Hohe Tauern, better known for its medieval gold mining history than for its banknotes. This 20 Heller piece belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued by municipalities between 1919 and 1922, when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left ordinary commerce stranded without small-denomination coinage. Literally thousands of Austrian towns printed their own emergency scrip during this period, and most were redeemed and destroyed within months.
E. & K. Müller handled the printing — a modest provincial firm, not one of the major Viennese houses. The single signature, Sommerer, almost certainly belongs to the Bürgermeister of record at the time.