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30 Heller Rottenbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rottenbach (Municipality of Rottenbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress vignette on cream paper, centred on a panoramic view of Rottenbach village framed by a stone arcade of three arches, with a church steeple rising above rooftops, fields, and a clouded sky. Two circular denomination medallions inscribed '30 / Heller / Gemeinde' are placed at left and right within the arcade piers, flanked at lower left by a jug and sheaf of grain and at lower right by a sack and harvest produce. The designer's credit 'ENTW. H. ANZENBERGER.' appears in small type at the lower right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a typeset layout entirely in dark blue ink, enclosed within a decorative dot-and-dash border. The heading 'GUTSCHEIN' in bold Gothic type is centred at the top, followed by 'der Gemeinde Rottenbach, Oberösterreich.' in large bold lettering. A paragraph of German text states the municipality's redemption obligation, below which the mayor's signature line reads 'Der Bürgermeister: Josef Pautzenberger.' The denomination numeral '30' appears in each of the four corners within small circular ornaments, and an anti-counterfeiting warning is printed along the bottom edge. |
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Rottenbach is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and this 30 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communities between 1919 and 1921 — a period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation due to hoarding and metal shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Municipalities, businesses, and even individual estates issued their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving.
The designer credit to H. Anzenberger is relatively uncommon in the Jaksch cataloging of Upper Austrian Notgeld; most small commune issues went unsigned or used anonymous commercial printers. Signed by Josef Pautzenberger, presumably the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal authority at the time of issue.