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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rossatz an der Donau (Market Town of Rossatz on the Danube) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The plain unprinted buff paper reverse carries a four-line patriotic verse in Gothic script at the top, followed by the Gutschein title in bold blackletter and the issuing authority name. Below, validity and redemption period dates are stated in Gothic script, with a final warning that counterfeiting is punishable by law. |
| Reverse lettering | Durch die Lüfte rauscht ein Mahnen, Immer lauter dringts herein: "Reicht die Hände euch, Germanen An der Donau und am Rhein!" 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-growing settlement on the south bank of the Danube in the Wachau valley, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced by municipal and market authorities during the currency chaos of 1914–1921. The Imperial and later republican government could not supply adequate small change, forcing even tiny communes to print their own emergency money — legally tolerated but technically irregular.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR0848a designation places this firmly within the Austrian local Notgeld series, where Rossatz-specific issues are scarce simply due to the commune's size.