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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rabenstein (Municipality of Rabenstein, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 November 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress Notgeld voucher with a finely rendered panoramic vignette of the village of Rabenstein at centre, showing the church tower, surrounding structures, and a rocky outcrop to the left against a backdrop of wooded hills. The denomination '20 Heller' and issuer legend 'Gemeinde Rabenstein, N.Ö.' are set in Gothic script at the upper left, with a small oval cartouche in the upper right bearing the municipal coat of arms and the date 1673. The year 1920 appears in large numerals at lower left, with three manuscript signatures of municipal officials positioned beneath the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2. Auflage! Um den Kleingeldmangel zu lindern, gibt die Gemeinde Rabenstein, N.-Ö., Gutscheine aus. Die Gemeinde Rabenstein haftet für dieses Notgeld und löst es nur bis zum 30. November 1920 in gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel ein. Jede Nachahmung wird bestraft. Gemeinderatsbeschluss vom 19. April 1920. BOMMER, ST. PÖLTEN |
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Rabenstein an der Pielach is a small market town in the Pielach valley, and this note is a product of the acute small-change crisis that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities across Lower Austria — Rabenstein among hundreds — printing their own Heller denominations simply to keep local commerce moving. These Notgeld issues were a matter of practical necessity, not civic pride.
Bommer in St. Pölten handled a considerable volume of Lower Austrian municipal printing during this period, which makes attribution straightforward but the notes themselves modestly common.