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20 Heller Rastenfeld
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rastenfeld (Market Town of Rastenfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Zwanzig 20 Heller Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Rastenfeld. Die Marktgemeinde Rastenfeld haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen Der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: Der Gemeinderat: Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld spricht. Das ganze Land ist schon verlumpt, Es wird uns nirgends mehr gepumpt, 20 All' Gold und Silber flog hinaus, D'rum helf' ich Euch ein wenig aus. |
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Rastenfeld is a small market town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. With the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the new Austrian republic struggling to establish stable currency infrastructure, hundreds of municipalities — many of them tiny — issued their own Notgeld to keep local commerce moving. These Gemeinde-issued notes were legal within their issuing community only, redeemable at the local administration.
The Jaksc catalog remains the primary reference for Austrian municipal Notgeld of this period, covering thousands of issuers that Pick's international listings touch only selectively.