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50 Heller Riedau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Riedau (Market Town of Riedau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress note with a decorative border enclosing the principal design elements. At upper left, a heraldic shield bearing a stylised castle vignette is set within a rope-pattern frame; at upper right, the numeral '50' appears in a dotted rectangular cartouche. The word 'Gutschein' is rendered in Gothic script across a lightly dotted underprint band beneath the heading 'FÜNFZIG HELLER'. To the left, a finely engraved townscape vignette captioned 'Riedau um 1820.' shows the parish church with its onion dome amid surrounding buildings and trees. The right half carries the issuing authority text, the validity date, and a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister; the note is identified as the second edition by the imprint 'II. AUFLAGE.' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG HELLER Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Riedau Gültigkeitsdauer bis 31. Dezbr. 1920 Riedau d. 1. Juni 1920 der Bürgermeister: Hans Schender Riedau um 1820. FÜNFZIG FÜNFZICHELLER 50 II. AUFLAGE. |
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Riedau is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced between 1919 and 1921 to address the chronic small-coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Municipal and even village-level authorities across Austria were legally permitted — briefly — to issue their own emergency currency, producing a proliferation of hyper-local paper that was never intended to circulate beyond the immediate community.
The Jaksch/Pick reference II suffix indicates a second type within the Riedau series, distinguished from the first by some variation in printing, date, or layout detail.