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20 Heller Rabensburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rabensburg (Market Municipality of Rabensburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue Notgeld voucher on a fine guilloche underprint ground, with the denomination numeral '20' printed in blue within square cartouches at each upper corner. The central vignette presents two winged putti flanking a stylised town wall with birds in flight above, the figures each holding floral garlands rendered in a decorative letterpress style. Below the vignette, the denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' is set in large blackletter script, with a validity clause and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister printed beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Rabensburg Gutschein Zwanzig Heller Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt mit 31. Juli 1920. BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Rabensburg is a small market town in Lower Austria, just kilometers from the Slovak border, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued after the collapse of the Habsburg empire left the new republic's coinage supply in chaos. Municipal and commercial issuers across Austria printed their own small-denomination emergency scrip between roughly 1919 and 1921 to fill the gap left by hoarded or vanished metal coins.
Rabensburg's issue is among the more obscure village-level emissions — collector interest in Austrian Notgeld varies sharply by artistic ambition, and small market towns rarely commissioned the elaborate multi-color designs that drove the speculative Notgeld collecting boom of the same period.