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20 Heller Ried im Traunkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis (Municipality of Ried im Traunkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 74 × 51 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis 20 Heller Die Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Ried i. Tr., 1. April 1920 Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Cream note printed in brown with two vertical decorative pillar vignettes flanking the central text field; denomination '20' appears in squared cartouches at upper left and upper right. A four-line dialect verse in Fraktur script occupies the upper portion, followed by the bold heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis' and a block of text detailing the total issue of 52,000 Kronen and the redemption terms. A warning against counterfeiting is printed at the foot, flanked by wavy ornamental rules, with a small printer's mark at lower right. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type emerged from a simple problem: the postwar coin shortage was so severe that small-denomination metal currency had effectively vanished from everyday commerce by 1919–1920, hoarded or melted. Gemeinden across Upper Austria printed their own fractional paper to fill the gap, with Ried im Traunkreis among hundreds of small communities issuing locally authorized notes through the Notgeld system.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this within the documented Upper Austrian series, but survival rates for village-level 20 Heller pieces vary sharply — many were redeemed and destroyed once coin circulation normalized in the early 1920s.