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20 Heller Raabs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Raabs an der Thaya |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller / Heller 20 / 1920 / Gutschein / der / Marktgemeinde Raabs/Th. / Die Marktgemeinde Raabs löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1.-31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld ein. / Raabs, am 12. April 1920. / der Bürgermeister: / Der Vizebürgermeister: / Der Gemeinderat: / Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines / Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 / wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | Printed in black on buff paper, the reverse is dominated by a central circular vignette of the town of Raabs, showing a church and castle tower enclosed within a wreath of oak leaves and acorns. The place name 'Raabs' appears within the vignette, and the denomination numeral '20' is repeated in each of the four corners within small framed boxes. Rhyming aphorisms referencing wartime hardship and the scarcity of coin are inscribed along the left and right margins and across the top in Fraktur lettering. |
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Raabs an der Thaya is a small market town in Lower Austria at the confluence of the German and Czech Thaya rivers, and this 20 Heller emergency note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to fill the gap — Notgeld of this type was not a novelty but a practical necessity, authorized under a series of emergency provisions and issued by hundreds of Gemeinden across Austria between 1919 and 1921.
The Jaksch catalogue reference places this within the documented series for Raabs, confirming it as a genuine local issue rather than one of the purely speculative collector pieces that some municipalities produced purely for philatelic sale.