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50 Heller Rutzenham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rutzenham (Municipality of Rutzenham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 83 × 59 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in purple-violet on plain cream paper, the reverse bears the heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Rutzenham.' in bold Gothic lettering across the top, flanked by the denomination numeral '50' at each side. The central field contains a full explanatory text in German Fraktur script stating the legal basis of issue and the redemption period from 1 to 28 February 1921. A warning against counterfeiting in bold italic script appears at the foot. The border consists of a simple dotted and square-pattern frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Rutzenham. 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. 50 |
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Rutzenham is a tiny village in Upper Austria — a municipality so small it barely warranted its own notgeld series, yet like hundreds of similar communities it issued emergency paper during the postwar coinage famine of 1919–1921. The Austro-Hungarian monetary collapse and the chaos of successor-state currency transitions left local governments scrambling to produce fractional substitutes at the municipal level, often in single print runs that never saw significant circulation beyond the immediate parish.
The Jaksc reference confirms this as a catalogued type, but low survivor numbers from issues of this scale are the norm — village notgeld was spent hard and discarded faster than urban issues.