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50 Heller Rottenmann
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Rottenmann |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and cream notgeld printed in letterpress on plain paper, with a geometric Art Nouveau border of interlocking diamond and oval motifs framing the entire face. A black vignette at left illustrates a medieval castle or manor building set against a hillside with foliage. To the right, the issuer's name and denomination are set in bold blackletter script, with the large numeral '50' rendered in green below the word 'über'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Rottenmann Gutschein über 50 Heller |
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Rottenmann is a small market town in Styria, and its municipal notgeld issues like this 50 Heller belong to the wave of emergency small-change scrip that Austrian local authorities were forced to produce from around 1919 onward — coins had effectively vanished from everyday commerce, hoarded or melted, and the central government was too occupied with post-imperial collapse to fill the gap systematically.
The Jaksc catalogue reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian municipal series, though Rottenmann issues are not among the more frequently encountered Styrian pieces in the specialist market.