20 Heller

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.