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20 Heller Rodaun
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rodaun (Municipality of Rodaun) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green and dark red bicolour Notgeld note with a central rectangular vignette printed in dark red showing a view of Schloss Rodaun amid trees and clouds. Two circular green medallions bearing the denomination numeral '20' with 'HELLER' inscribed above and below flank the central vignette, surrounded by foliate and scroll ornamental borders. A wide vertical panel at right carries the large numeral '20' and the word 'Heller' printed in dark red in rotated orientation, with wheat-ear motifs in the margins. |
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| Reverse description | Pale green letterpress reverse with three ornate guilloche rosette medallions bearing the numeral '20' arranged centrally and at right, alongside a large elongated oval guilloche panel at left also carrying '20'. The right portion carries the redemption text in German Fraktur script, with three manuscript signature lines below for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Finanzreferent. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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Rodaun was a small village southwest of Vienna — today absorbed into the 23rd district — that issued its own emergency paper money during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from roughly 1916 onward. These Notgeld pieces filled a genuine transactional gap at the lowest denomination level, where metal had effectively vanished from daily commerce.
F. Seltenberg operated out of Vienna's third district as a modest commercial printer. Nothing about this note was produced for collectors; the Rodaun series predates the later, self-consciously decorative Austrian Notgeld issues that municipalities began producing for the philatelic trade around 1920–21.