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50 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rossatz (Market Town of Rossatz in der Wachau, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0848 |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress vignette of the Rossatz townscape with a ruined hilltop castle in the background, framed by a decorative border. Left panel carries the issuer inscription and denomination '50 Heller' in red overprint. Right panel bears the municipal guarantee text and the Bürgermeister's signature. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse with all text in brown Fraktur script, centred. A four-line patriotic verse occupies the upper portion, followed by the voucher title and issuer name in bold, then validity and redemption period clauses and a counterfeiting warning. |
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Rossatz is a small Wachau wine village on the south bank of the Danube, directly across from Dürnstein. This note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921, when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal governments scrambling to produce their own small-denomination scrip to fill the coin vacuum. Hundreds of Lower Austrian market towns did exactly this, which makes individual Gemeinde issues easy to overlook — but the Rossatz series is reasonably scarce simply because the town's population was tiny and print runs were correspondingly small.
The Jaksch reference places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian Notgeld corpus. Collector demand for Wachau-region issues has historically outpaced demand for urban equivalents.