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20 Heller Ruprechtshofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ruprechtshofen (Municipality of Ruprechtshofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on cream paper within a continuous ornamental border of repeating geometric guilloche motifs. At the top centre, a two-line verse in Gothic script is flanked by the denomination numerals '20' in plain boxes at each corner. The main text block, set in Gothic typeface, states the municipal council resolution of 3 June 1920 authorising the issue of Gutscheine to a total value of 25,000 Kronen, redeemable in legal tender at the municipal cashier's office. Below the text block appear the facsimile signatures of the deputy mayor (Bürgerm.-Stellv.) Aigenbauer and the mayor (Bürgermeister) Johann Hackner, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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| Signature(s) | Aigenbauer and Johann Hackner |
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Ruprechtshofen is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own Notgeld in 1920 when the postwar coin shortage made small transactions nearly impossible. These local emergency issues were administered at the municipal level — hence the two signatures, almost certainly the Bürgermeister and a council official — and were redeemable only within the issuing community, which severely limited their useful life.
Austrian municipal Notgeld of this type was typically printed in very small runs, often on whatever paper stock was locally available.