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20 Heller Rossatz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rossatz in der Wachau |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a letterpress vignette in dark brown ink of a Gothic church tower with a pointed steeple set among rocks and trees, rendered in a fine linear illustrative style. To the right, the denomination '20 Heller 20' is set in ornate Fraktur script at the top, with a large red numeral '20' underprint centred behind the issuer text. The legend identifying the Notgeld issuer appears in Fraktur across the middle, followed by a guarantee clause and the Bürgermeister's manuscript facsimile signature at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark brown Fraktur letterpress on plain cream paper without vignette. The upper portion bears a five-line regional poem in praise of the Wachau landscape, followed below by the bold heading 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Rossatz i. d. W.' The lower section states the validity period and redemption window, closing with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Die Nachahmung wird bestraft.' |
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Rossatz is a small wine-producing market town on the south bank of the Danube in the Wachau valley, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities it issued Notgeld during the coin shortage that gripped the Austro-Hungarian successor states after 1918. The Marktgemeinde series was a local administrative necessity, not a banking instrument — printed in tiny quantities to cover everyday transactions when small change had effectively vanished from circulation.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly in the Austrian municipal Notgeld corpus. Rossatz issues are among the less frequently encountered Wachau pieces; the town's small population meant low print runs.