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50 Heller Reichraming
| Issuer | Gemeinde Reichraming (Municipality of Reichraming) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Reichraming Fünfzig Heller Die Gemeinde Reichraming haftet für die Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem gesamten Gemeinde-Vermögen. Der Bürgermeister. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921. |
| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a detailed vignette of the ancient hollow oak tree known as the 'Tausendjährige Eiche am Arzberg', rendered in a fine illustrative style beneath overhanging oak branches with acorns. Two uniformed soldiers in early 19th-century Austrian dress, each carrying a rifle, stand as sentinels to the left and right of the central vignette. The denomination numeral '50' appears in circular frames at both upper corners, and the issuer name is split between the lower left and lower right panels within an oak-leaf decorative border. |
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Reichraming is a small industrial village in Upper Austria, dependent in 1920 on the Steyr-Werke supply chain. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities that year, it issued Notgeld to address the acute coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice — the newly formed Republic inherited a monetary system stripped of small denomination metal by wartime hoarding and industrial requisitioning.
The JPR0829d designation places this within a documented sub-variant of the Reichraming 50 Heller series, suggesting at least minor differences in printing run, date, or signature from sibling issues. Municipal Austrian Notgeld of this period was typically produced by local or regional printers rather than national security printers, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and color fidelity seen across surviving examples.