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10 Heller Rabensburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rabensburg (Market Town of Rabensburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 July 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Rabensburg Gutschein Zehn Heller Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt mit 31. Juli 1920. BÜRGERMEISTER |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on coarse brownish paper stock, bearing only a faint single-rule rectangular border near the edges and exhibiting the natural fibrous texture of the utilitarian wartime paper used for this emergency issue. |
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Rabensburg is a small market town in Lower Austria near the Slovak border, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to produce small-denomination emergency currency to cover the chronic coin shortage of 1919–1920. Thousands of Austrian towns did exactly this, most printing through regional firms on whatever paper stock was available.
The mayor's signature — Johann Irscher — gives this note its only real authentication. No central bank stood behind it.