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20 Heller Reichersberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Reichersberg (Municipality of Reichersberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld printed in violet on cream paper, with a geometric guilloche underprint of interlocking square and diamond motifs forming a symmetrical frame. The issuer name 'Reichersberg a. J.' appears in blackletter script at the top, flanked by the denomination '20' at centre and the word 'Heller' repeated on each side; below, the central inscription reads 'Kassen-Schein'. Two text panels occupy the lower left and right: the left records the municipal resolution of 24 May 1920 guaranteeing redemption with the full assets of the commune, while the right states the validity date of 31 December 1920, a counterfeiting warning, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister Karl Oettl. |
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| Reverse lettering | Reichersberg am Inn, O.-Ö. |
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Reichersberg is a small Upper Austrian market town on the Inn River, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to combat the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. These hyperlocal issues were authorized under broad postwar provisions that allowed communes, businesses, and even private associations to print fractional notes when no other small change was available.
Karl Oettl's signature as authorizing official makes this traceable to municipal administration rather than a commercial sponsor. The JPR reference places it firmly in the Jaksch-documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, a series that remains incompletely catalogued at the parish level.