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10 Heller Raabs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Raabs an der Thaya |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in brown-black on buff paper, centres on a circular medallion enclosing a line-engraved view of the Raabs church and castle tower, with the place name 'Raabs' in Gothic lettering within the roundel, itself surrounded by a decorative wreath of oak leaves and acorns. The denomination numeral '10' is repeated within square frames at each of the four corners. Three aphoristic phrases in Gothic script run along the upper and both vertical margins, while the issuing authority's name appears in a banner at the foot of the design. |
| Reverse lettering | Hart Geld ist rar, Der Krieg ist gar, Nimmt mich für bar. Raabs Marktgemeinde Raabs a/d. Th. 10 |
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Raabs an der Thaya is a small market town in Lower Austria near the Czech border, and this 10 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues produced by Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The disintegration of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918 left small communities chronically short of low-denomination coinage, and local authorities — market communes, villages, even individual businesses — stepped in with their own emergency scrip.
The Jaksc reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, though Raabs issues are not among the heavily collected rarities of the series.