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20 Heller Rossatz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rossatz in der Wachau |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark brown Fraktur letterpress on plain cream paper without vignette. The upper portion bears a five-line regional poem in praise of the Wachau landscape, followed below by the bold heading 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Rossatz i. d. W.' The lower section states the validity period and redemption window, closing with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Die Nachahmung wird bestraft.' |
| Reverse lettering | Auf den Bergen grüne Reben, Sonne strahlt vom Himmel blau, Goldnen Wein, ein frohes Leben Hat der Herrgott uns gegeben! Fremdling! Das ist die Wachau! Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Rossatz i. d. W. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösungszeit vom 15. Dezember 1920 bis 31. Dezember 1920. Die Nachahmung wird bestraft. |
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Rossatz is a small wine-producing market town on the south bank of the Danube in the Wachau valley, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities it issued Notgeld during the coin shortage that gripped the Austro-Hungarian successor states after 1918. The Marktgemeinde series was a local administrative necessity, not a banking instrument — printed in tiny quantities to cover everyday transactions when small change had effectively vanished from circulation.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly in the Austrian municipal Notgeld corpus. Rossatz issues are among the less frequently encountered Wachau pieces; the town's small population meant low print runs.