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20 Heller Rottenbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rottenbach (Municipality of Rottenbach) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette rendered in fine line engraving presents a rural landscape viewed through a triple-arched stone arcade, with a church steeple rising above agricultural fields and a cloudy sky. Denomination numerals '20' appear within circular rope-border cartouches at left and right, each accompanied by the inscription 'Heller' and 'Gemeinde' below. Harvest motifs — a sheaf of grain with a jug at lower left and a mound of produce at lower right — frame the composition, with the place name 'Rottenbach' lettered along the bottom; the designer's credit 'ENTW. H. ANZENBERGER' appears at the lower right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Gemeinde Rottenbach ENTW. H. ANZENBERGER |
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Austrian Kleingeldersatz — emergency small-change scrip — flooded the country during and after the First World War as coin metal was requisitioned and copper and nickel disappeared from circulation almost entirely. Municipal and corporate issuers stepped in to fill the gap, producing thousands of distinct local notes. Rottenbach's series is among the more obscure Upper Austrian examples, with Anzenberger credited as designer — an arrangement more common in these provincial issues than is generally appreciated, where local artistic talent was engaged rather than commercial printing houses.
Pautzenberger's signature as signatory places administrative responsibility squarely with the municipal authority rather than any banking institution.