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50 Heller Rabensburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Rabensburg (Market Town of Rabensburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Rabensburg Gutschein Fünfzig Heller Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt mit 31. Juli 1920. BÜRGERMEISTER |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain buff-toned paper with a single thin rectangular border frame ruled near the edges, leaving the entire interior field blank. |
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Rabensburg is a small market town in Lower Austria, near the Slovak and Czech borders — exactly the sort of peripheral municipality that turned to emergency paper money (Notgeld) after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire left small change in desperately short supply. This 50 Heller note is part of that broader Austrian Notgeld phenomenon of 1920, when hundreds of towns and communes issued their own scrip simply to keep local commerce functioning.
The Heller itself was already a dying unit. Austria abolished it entirely in 1924 when the Schilling replaced the Krone, making these notes obsolete within a few years of issue.