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20 Heller Ruppersthal
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ruppersthal (Municipality of Ruppersthal) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Ruppersthal über Zwanzig Heller gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 DRUCK DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR GRAPHISCHE INDUSTRIE, WIEN VI. |
| Reverse description | The plain white reverse is printed entirely in black typeset text, with no pictorial elements. The heading 'NOTGELD' appears in large bold capitals, followed by 'DER GEMEINDE RUPPERSTHAL, N.-Ö.' and 'ÜBER 20 HELLER', above a paragraph in Roman type setting out the redemption conditions. A cautionary legend against counterfeiting appears at the foot, and a two-line proverb in the upper right corner reads 'Wer das Kleine nicht ehrt, / Ist des Großen nicht wert!' |
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Ruppersthal is a small wine-growing village in Lower Austria's Weinviertel, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld in 1920 to address the acute small-change shortage that plagued postwar Austria as the new republic struggled to establish a functioning monetary system. The Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie was a well-established Viennese commercial printer responsible for a considerable volume of Austrian municipal Notgeld during this period — not a specialist security printer, which shows in the relatively modest production quality typical of these village issues.
At 20 Heller, this sits at the lower end of the Ruppersthal denomination range.