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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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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two side-by-side scenic vignettes executed in a fine brown letterpress engraving style, enclosed within a double-ruled border with geometric corner ornaments. The left panel presents a dramatic view of the Kitzlochklamm gorge, with towering rock faces and a narrow ravine; the right panel offers a sweeping panoramic view of the Schareck peak as seen from the Sonnblick, with glacial ridges and distant mountain ranges rendered in fine hatching. Each scene is captioned in small roman type along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Kitzlochklamm Schareck vom Sonnblick |
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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.