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60 Heller Rabenstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Rabenstein (Municipality of Rabenstein, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note with a vignette at upper left showing a view of Rabenstein castle on a hilltop with trees and stairway, captioned 'RABENSTAIN' and initialled 'M. MOSER' at lower right of the vignette. To the right, a decorative Fraktur inscription 'GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde Rabenstein' appears above a large bold denomination '60 h', flanked by a figure of a mounted knight in armour. Signature lines for Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat appear at lower centre, with manuscript signatures present, and a blue official municipality stamp is visible at upper left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Rabenstein, N.-Ö., Gutscheine aus. Die Gemeinde Rabenstein haftet für dieses Notgeld und löst selbes nur bis 30. November 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde ein. Jede Nachahmung wird bestraft. Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 19. April 1920. HOMMER, ST PÖLTEN 3. Ausgabe! |
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Rabenstein an der Pielach is a small market town in the Pielach valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the postwar economic collapse that followed the dissolution of the Habsburg state. The 60 Heller denomination is characteristic of the fractional values Austrian communes used to address the chronic shortage of small coin in 1920, a problem the new republican government in Vienna could not quickly resolve.
Hommer of St. Pölten was a regional printer responsible for a number of Lower Austrian municipal issues from this period. Official stamp authentication was the primary safeguard against counterfeiting — thin protection, but the quantities involved rarely justified more elaborate security.