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10 Heller Raab
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Raab (Market Municipality of Raab) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | A detailed black-and-white engraved panoramic vignette of the market town of Raab as it appeared circa 1700, with a church steeple and town buildings set amid rolling hills; flanking figures in period costume appear at left and right margins, with the denomination numeral '10' and the word 'Heller' repeated on both sides in Gothic blackletter script. The issuer inscription 'Notgeld der Markt-Gemeinde Raab, Innviertl., Schloß- und HoftMarch um 1700' appears in the upper portion in Gothic lettering, accompanied by a heraldic shield at upper right. A four-line dialect verse in a scroll banner occupies the lower margin, and the artist's signature 'Doblmaier' is visible at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set within a multi-rule decorative border composed of interlocking chain and dotted-line frames, with small rosette ornaments in the four corners. The heading 'Gemeinde Raab, O.-Oe.' is printed in large Gothic blackletter at the top, followed by a block of justified Gothic text stating the municipality's obligation to redeem the note in lawful currency through the Sparkasse Raab, by resolution of the municipal council dated 26 February 1920, with validity expiring one month after published notice. The printed signature of the Bürgermeister 'Matthias Wohlmacher, Bgm.' appears in the centre, above the large bold denomination 'Heller 10 Heller' at the foot. |
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Raab is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities across the former Habsburg territories, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These local issues were an administrative stopgap, authorized at the municipal level and redeemable in theory but often worthless in practice once regional economies stabilized. The designer credit to Doblmaier is atypical for a village-level issue; most comparable Notgeld from Upper Austrian market towns used anonymous or committee-produced artwork.
Wohlmacher's signature as signatory places administrative accountability on a named local official rather than an institutional stamp — a detail that sometimes helps trace surviving examples to specific redemption periods.