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20 Heller Raxendorf
| Issuer | Raxendorf, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld issued by the municipality of Raxendorf, printed in dark brown letterpress on a light geometric trellis underprint. A double-rule rectangular frame encloses the denomination panel, with the large numeral '20' centred between the words 'Heller' at left and right, surmounted by the heading 'Gutschein für Raxendorf' and the word 'über'. Below the frame, a two-line redemption clause states validity from 1 to 31 December 1920, followed by the place and date of issue 'Raxendorf, am 10. Mai 1920', and the two authorising signatories with their respective titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für Raxendorf über Heller 20 Heller welcher von den Gefertigten in gesetzlicher Währung vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 eingelöst wird. Raxendorf, am 10. Mai 1920. Willy Pollhammer, Franz Karl, Kaufmann. Gastwirt und Bäcker. |
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Raxendorf is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the currency chaos that followed Austria-Hungary's collapse. By 1920, coin shortages were severe enough that municipal authorities across the region were printing their own fractional notes rather than waiting on Vienna. Willy Pollhammer and Franz Karl signed as local officials authorizing the issue, a common arrangement where municipal accountability substituted for central bank backing.
Austrian Gemeinde-Notgeld of this type was rarely printed in large quantities, and Raxendorf's issues are among the more obscure in the Lower Austrian corpus.