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80 Heller Obernberg am Inn - Rennverein
| Issuer | Rennverein Obernberg am Inn (Racing Club of Obernberg am Inn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Rennverein Obernberg a. Inn. 80 Heller |
| Reverse description | Olive-brown letterpress note with a central vignette of a sulky harness racing scene — a jockey in cap drives a two-wheeled cart pulled by a galloping horse — positioned between two dotted-border panels each bearing the large numeral '80'. The heading 'Gutschein des Rennvereines Obernberg a. J.' is set in Gothic script across the top. A text panel at lower left states the redemption period and anti-counterfeiting warning, while an officer panel at lower right lists the club officials by title and name. |
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Notgeld issued by a racing club rather than a municipality or savings institution is unusual enough to warrant attention. The Rennverein Obernberg am Inn was a horse racing association operating in this small Upper Austrian town on the Inn river, and its 1920 emergency currency issue reflects both the chronic small-change shortage across postwar Austria and the surprising latitude granted to private organizations to issue their own scrip during that period.
Printed by Buchdruckerei Schmirer in Schwanenstadt — a small commercial print shop rather than a specialist securities printer — and designed by K. Roithinger, whose name appears on several regional Notgeld issues from Upper Austria.