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10 Heller

Issuer Municipality of Rodaun (Federal State of Lower Austria)
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Reverse description Printed entirely in green on plain paper; central text block in German Gothic script stating the redemption obligation of the Gemeinde Rodaun within 14 days of press announcement. Three ornamental guilloche rosettes are positioned at left and right margins. Signature lines for Der Vizebürgermeister, Der Bürgermeister, and Der Finanzreferent appear below the text, with the print credit 'Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III.' at the foot.
Reverse lettering Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeinde Rodaun innerhalb 14 Tagen nach Verlautbarung in der Tagespresse in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst.
Der Vizebürgermeister:
Der Bürgermeister:
Der Finanzreferent:
2. Auflage
Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III.
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Rodaun was a small village southwest of Vienna — now absorbed into the 23rd district — that resorted to issuing its own emergency paper during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from 1916 onward. These municipal Heller notes, collectively known as Notgeld, were a grassroots response to a wartime economy that had driven metal coinage into hoarding and industrial use almost entirely.

F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled a number of these small municipal commissions. The print runs were modest by design — enough to keep local commerce moving, no more.

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