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20 Heller Roitham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roitham (Municipality of Roitham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note printed in dark brown on plain buff paper, framed by a dotted-rule border with decorative floral corner ornaments. The issuer's name ROITHAM appears in large bold block letters within a ruled panel beneath the heading GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE, with the denomination ZWANZIG 20 HELLER set across the centre flanked by a radiating circular vignette. The lower portion carries a multi-line authorisation text in Gothic script, a facsimile mayoral signature, and the counterfeiting warning DIE NACHAHMUNG WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on buff paper within a dotted-rule border, with decorative scrollwork corner pieces. A central oval vignette presents a finely engraved panoramic townscape of Roitham, with residential buildings, trees, a church steeple, and forested hills in the background. The header reads GEMEINDE 20 ROITHAM and the denomination HELLER is inscribed in a plain panel at the foot of the note. |
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Roitham is a small Upper Austrian municipality that, like hundreds of others, issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The 20 Heller denomination places this squarely in the first wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld, before hyperinflation made small-value paper instruments irrelevant. These notes circulated purely locally, accepted on the goodwill of neighbors and the stamp of the Bürgermeister.
Josef Kartenhuber's signature as issuing authority is the only guarantee backing this note. No central bank, no reserve — just a village official's name.