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70 Heller Rohrbach - Landesverband der Kriegsbeschädigten
| Issuer | Landesverband der Kriegsbeschädigten (Witwen und Waisen), Bezirksstelle Rohrbach |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and red on plain paper, divided into three vertical panels by a decorative border. The two outer panels carry stylized Art Nouveau foliate vignettes in dark brown, with the denomination '70' in scroll cartouches at lower left and right. The central panel bears the large red numeral '70' above the inscription 'HELLER', surmounted by the issuer's full title in block lettering at the top; two manuscript signatures appear below the title, flanked by small ornamental rosettes. A decorative floral motif in red occupies the lower centre. The designer's credit 'ENTW. BERNHARD DERSCHMIDT' is printed in small type at the bottom centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 70 HELLER 70 Jos. Feichtingers Erben, Linz. BERNHARD DERSCHMIDT |
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The Landesverband der Kriegsbeschädigten — the provincial association for war invalids, widows, and orphans — was among the welfare organizations that issued emergency small change (Notgeld) in Upper Austria during the acute coin shortage of 1920. That this particular district office in Rohrbach commissioned a designer by name, Bernhard Derschmidt, and sent the work to Jos. Feichtingers Erben in Linz rather than using an off-the-shelf printer's stock, suggests the issue carried some local civic pride alongside its purely functional purpose.
Feichtingers Erben was a well-established Linz printing house active through the Notgeld period and responsible for several Upper Austrian municipal issues.