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10 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Rodaun (Federal State of Lower Austria) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Purple and green bicolour note; central green vignette of Schloss Rodaun within a decorative frame, flanked by two circular denomination medallions reading '10 HELLER' in purple. An eagle device appears at the top centre. Lower panel carries the Gothic-script inscription 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde RODAUN N.Ö.' A vertical green coupon at right shows the numeral '10' and 'HELLER' in rotated text. |
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| 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.