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10 Heller Roitham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roitham (Municipality of Roitham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress impression on tan paper, enclosed within a decorative border of interlaced scrollwork with stylised corner ornaments. The upper register bears the inscriptions 'Gemeinde' and 'Roitham' flanking a rectangular value tablet with the numeral '10', while the central field is occupied by a finely engraved oval vignette of a panoramic townscape of Roitham, showing residential buildings, a church steeple, surrounding hills, and tree-lined roads. The denomination legend 'HELLER' appears in bold capitals along the lower margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Kastenhaber |
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Roitham is a small Upper Austrian village — today absorbed into the municipality of Scharnstein — that issued this Heller note as part of the extraordinary wave of Austrian Notgeld produced between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without adequate coinage in circulation, forcing Gemeinden across Austria and Germany to print their own fractional emergency money. Roitham was among the smallest issuers in the region.
Josef Kastenhaber's signature as authorizing official is the primary identifying detail tying this note to its specific municipal issuer.