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10 Heller Rossatz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rossatz in der Wachau |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a letterpress vignette of a rustic Austrian market-town courtyard scene, rendered in fine line-art style in dark brown ink, with a large tree in the foreground and a multi-storey building with arched gateway behind. To the right, the denomination '10 Heller 10' is set in bold Gothic script at the top, with a large red underprint numeral '10' overlaid centrally. Below, the issuing authority inscription and a liability clause appear in smaller Gothic lettering, followed by the mayor's manuscript facsimile signature above the caption 'Der Bürgermeister'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark brown Gothic script on plain buff paper stock, with no vignette. The upper portion carries a four-line satirical verse in German, below which the bold heading 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Rossatz i. d. W.' appears in larger display type. The lower section provides validity and redemption period dates in smaller Gothic text, concluding with an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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Rossatz is a small wine-growing village on the south bank of the Danube in the Wachau, directly opposite Dürnstein. Its Heller notgeld belongs to the wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency issued from 1920 onward, when the postwar collapse of the krone left small communities without adequate coinage for daily transactions. The Marktgemeinde — a market township of no great size — produced these notes locally to fill that gap, as hundreds of comparable Austrian villages did in the same period.
The JPR reference places this squarely in the Jaksch-Pick Austrian notgeld catalog. Nothing in the available data points to unusual printing, a known error, or any particular scarcity within the series.