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50 Heller Raabs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Raabs an der Thaya |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller 1920 Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Raabs a/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 Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | Printed in violet-purple on buff paper, the reverse centres on a circular vignette enclosed by a dotted border, within which a view of the church and tower of Raabs is inscribed with the legend 'Raabs' in Gothic lettering. Oak-leaf and acorn sprays radiate outward from the central medallion, filling the corners of the note, while the denomination numeral '50' appears in each of the four corner squares. Three rhyming aphorisms in Gothic script are arranged along the top, left, and right margins, with the issuer name 'Marktgemeinde Raabs a/Th.' carried along the lower border. |
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Raabs an der Thaya is a small market town in Lower Austria where the Thaya river forks, and like hundreds of similar municipalities across Austria, it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. This 50 Heller piece is the second type in the Raabs series (the "II" suffix in the Jaksch reference distinguishes it from an earlier issue), reflecting that demand for locally produced substitute currency persisted well into 1920, two years after the armistice.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was printed in enormous variety across Austria and Germany between 1919 and 1922, and Raabs issues are among the less frequently encountered Lower Austrian examples today.