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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 | The upper portion carries a teal-printed landscape vignette of the Alpine valley of Rabenstein as it appeared in 1683, with mountains in the background and a river valley in the foreground, over which the large red numeral '50' is superimposed. Below the vignette, the denomination 'Heller' appears in red letterpress, followed by the inscription 'Rabenstein im Jahre 1683' in a decorative script band. The lower section, enclosed within an ornate teal Art Nouveau border with corner bird motifs, contains the text 'Gutschein über 50 Heller der Gemeinde Rabenstein' alongside three manuscript signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Rabenstein an der Pielach is a small market village in the Pielach valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the chronic coin shortage that persisted well after the war's end. The Heller denominations had effectively ceased to function as metal currency — the coins simply didn't exist in circulation anymore — which forced even villages with no banking infrastructure to print emergency scrip.
Tonner of St. Pölten handled a considerable volume of Lower Austrian municipal issues during this period, and the authentication burden fell on the official stamp rather than any embedded security printing.