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75 Heller Rattenberg
| Issuer | Stadt Rattenberg (City of Rattenberg, Tyrol) |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and purple on cream paper, with a large spread-eagle vignette at the top centre, wings extended across the full width of the note. Below the eagle, a panoramic vignette presents two medieval fortresses flanking a central cartouche with a cogwheel motif and a ribbon banner inscribed 'Von Kufstein bis Salurn'; edelweiss sprays fill the lateral borders. The denomination '75' appears at upper left and 'Hl.' at upper right in bold Gothic numerals, while two stanzas of patriotic German verse are printed in the lower left and right fields, above the issuer name 'Stadt Rattenberg in Tirol' in a large Gothic script panel at the foot. The imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK.' and the edition note 'II. AUFLAGE.' appear in the lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and purple on cream paper, with the denomination '75' at upper left and 'Hl.' at upper right in bold red Gothic numerals. The central vignette presents a detailed panoramic view of the town of Rattenberg on the Inn River, with Rattenberg Castle rising on the rocky hillside above the townscape, raft-men on the water in the foreground, and alpine mountains in the background. A decorative border of edelweiss and geometric ornament frames the composition. The lower panel, printed on a red-orange ground, carries the validity and legal text together with three facsimile manuscript signatures of the issuing municipal authorities. |
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Rattenberg, on the Inn River in Tyrol, holds the distinction of being Austria's smallest town by area — a fact that makes its wartime notgeld program quietly remarkable. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, Rattenberg turned to locally printed emergency currency during World War I when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation entirely, hoarded or melted down. Wagner in Innsbruck handled the printing, as they did for numerous Tyrolean communes during this period.
The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR0821I places this within the Austrian notgeld corpus properly documented by those cataloguers rather than the broader German emergency money surveys, a distinction that matters for serious collectors working this regional material.