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20 Heller Rutzenham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rutzenham (Municipality of Rutzenham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0858-20 |
| Obverse description | Printed in violet on plain paper, the obverse presents a central vignette of the local parish church tower rising amid decorative floral and foliate scrollwork. To the left, a figure of a male peasant holding a scythe and sheaf of wheat is set within an ornamental surround, while a ladder motif appears to the right. The denomination '20' appears in large numerals at lower left and right flanking the word 'Heller', with the issuing authority inscription and two facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and a municipal official appearing in the lower central panel, dated 9.5.1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Rutzenham i. Oberösterreich Die Gemeinde Rutzenham i. Oberösterreich haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. 9.5.1920 20 Heller |
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Rutzenham is a village in Upper Austria with a population that, even today, barely clears a few hundred. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency currency in 1920 is less surprising than it sounds — the postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left communities across Austria scrambling to produce Notgeld when coin simply vanished from circulation. Hundreds of parishes and market towns did the same, many commissioning locally printed scrip of varying quality.
The Jaksch corpus documents this as JPR0858-20, one of what was almost certainly a small, purely functional run intended to make change at the village level until the new Austrian krone stabilized enough to restore normal coin flow.