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50 Heller Rabenstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rabenstein (Municipality of Rabenstein, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the obverse presents a panoramic landscape vignette of the Rabenstein village and castle ruins set against a hillside, executed in fine letterpress line engraving. The denomination and issuer legend appear in Gothic script above the central vignette, with a small inset cartouche in the upper right corner bearing a view of Rabenstein castle dated 1673. The year 1920 is inscribed at lower left, flanked by three facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeindesrat. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in red on cream paper, carries the full legal text of the notgeld issue in Gothic blackletter script, arranged in justified paragraphs across the central field. The notation '2. Ausgabe!' appears in the upper right corner, indicating the second issue. The printer's imprint 'Sommer, St. Pölten' is set in small roman capitals at the foot of the note. |
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Rabenstein an der Pielach is a small market town in the Pielach valley, and this note is one of hundreds of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues from 1920 — a period when post-war coin shortages left local governments no practical alternative but to print their own fractional scrip. The Gemeinde contracted Sommer in nearby St. Pölten, a regional printer responsible for a significant cluster of Lower Austrian Heller notes from this period, which accounts for the family resemblance across several valley communities' issues.
The Jaksch/Pick suffix "IIa" indicates a recognized variety within the Rabenstein series, distinguishing it by paper stock, ink, or overprint detail from at least one other state.