Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Rutzenham (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Blue letterpress on cream paper with a decorative border of fine repeated ornamental motifs. Central vignette shows a rural church flanked by trees and flowering shrubs, with a peasant figure at left holding a scythe. Denomination '50 Heller' appears at lower left and right, with the obligation text and two manuscript signatures below the vignette. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Rutzenham. 50 Die Gemeinde Rutzenham in Oberösterreich gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschuß-Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 9. Mai 1920 Gutscheine aus. Dieselben werden in der Zeit vom 1. bis 28. Feber 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Rutzenham is a small village in the Hausruckviertel district of Upper Austria — a municipality so minor it barely registers in most administrative histories. This note is a Notgeld issue, one of the thousands of emergency small-change pieces produced by Austrian towns and communes between 1919 and 1921 when coins effectively vanished from circulation after the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The federal government could not supply enough low-denomination coinage to meet everyday need, so local authorities filled the gap themselves.
The Jaksc catalogue documents Upper Austrian Notgeld systematically; this 50-Heller piece from Rutzenham is among the more obscure entries, issued by a community with a present-day population well under a thousand.