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50 Heller Ruppersthal
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ruppersthal (Municipality of Ruppersthal) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Violet and cream Notgeld voucher with an overall lozenge-pattern guilloche underprint. At centre-left, an oval vignette within ornate cartouche work presents a view of the Ruppersthal village church and surrounding buildings, flanked by decorative clusters of grapes and wheat; denomination numerals '50' occupy circular medallions at upper-left and upper-right. The denomination in Gothic script and validity clause 'gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' are set to the right, with two manuscript signatures at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream reverse printed in black letterpress, framed by a single-rule border. The upper-right corner carries a two-line German proverb, below which the bold heading 'NOTGELD' and issuer designation 'DER GEMEINDE RUPPERSTHAL, N.-Ö.' appear above the large-capital denomination 'ÜBER 50 HELLER'. A centred block of text states the redemption conditions, concluding with a warning against counterfeiting. |
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Ruppersthal is a village in Lower Austria with a population that barely crested a few hundred in the early twentieth century — which makes it one of the smaller communities to have issued Notgeld during the post-WWI currency chaos that gripped Austria between roughly 1919 and 1921. These hyperlocal emergency issues were technically illegal under Austrian federal law but tolerated out of necessity, as small-denomination coins had completely disappeared from circulation through hoarding and wartime metal requisition.
The printer, Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie, was one of the more prolific Vienna houses handling municipal Notgeld contracts, producing runs for dozens of Lower Austrian communities simultaneously. Small-village issues like this one typically had print runs of a few thousand at most, and redemption rates were often high once the federal coinage situation stabilized — survivors are correspondingly scarce.