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50 Heller Ruprechtshofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ruprechtshofen (Municipality of Ruprechtshofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 28 February 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on cream paper, the obverse carries a central landscape vignette of a rural Austrian farmstead with trees and rolling hills under a radiant sky, executed in a fine letterpress style. Ornate scrollwork cartouches in the upper corners each bear the denomination numeral '50', flanking the bold Fraktur inscription 'Gutschein' across the top. The issuer's name 'der Gemeinde Ruprechtshofen' appears in a decorative panel along the lower margin, with the designer's credit 'L. Haase Linz' noted in the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 In harter Zeit die Arbeit hoch, So hält man durch, durch Zwang und Not. Gemeinde Ruprechtshofen. Die Gemeinde Ruprechtshofen gibt laut Sitzungsbeschluß vom 3. Juni 1920 Gutscheine aus im Gesamtbetrage von 25.000 Kronen und haftet dafür mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen. Die Gutscheine werden bis Ende Februar 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde bei der Gemeindekasse eingelöst. Bürgerm.-Stellv.: Aigenbauer. Bürgermeister: Johann Hackner. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. 50 |
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Austrian Notgeld from the early 1920s proliferated precisely because the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small municipalities without adequate coin. Ruprechtshofen, a small Lower Austrian market town, issued this 50 Heller note under the same emergency provisions that drove hundreds of comparable communities to produce their own scrip between 1919 and 1922. The designer credit to L. Haase is unusual — most village-level Notgeld was farmed out to regional printers who supplied stock designs, making an individually credited designer worth noting.
Aigenbauer and Hackner signed as local municipal officials, their authority to issue resting on little more than communal necessity.