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1 Krone Graslitz
| Issuer | Bezirk Graslitz |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ausgabe: A/2. BEZIRK GRASLITZ. GUTSCHEIN über EINE KRONE rückzahlbar in gesetzlichen Zahlungsmitteln bis 20. Feber 1919. Nach diesem Zeitpunkte ist der Bezirk Graslitz zur Einlösung nicht mehr verpflichtet. Für diesen Gutschein haftet der Bezirk Graslitz gemäß der mit den untenstehenden Geldanstalten getroffenen, auf voller Deckung der ausgegebenen Gutscheine beruhenden Vereinbarungen. GRASLITZ, am 20. November 1918. Für den Bezirk Graslitz: Bezirksausschuß-Mitglied. Bezirksobmann. Bezirksausschuß-Mitglied. Zahl- und Einlösungsstellen: Städtische Sparkasse, Graslitz. Expositur der Österr. Länderbank, Graslitz. Spar- und Vorschußverein, Graslitz. Die Nachahmung dieser Gutscheine wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 KRONE |
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Graslitz — now Kraslice in the Czech Republic — was a predominantly German-speaking industrial town in the Erzgebirge foothills, known for musical instrument manufacturing. This 1 Krone note is a classic example of the Kleingeldersatz emergency currency that flooded the Austro-Hungarian periphery in 1918 as the empire's monetary system buckled under wartime strain and coin hoarding stripped local commerce of any viable small change.
District-level authorities across Bohemia issued their own notgeld with little central coordination. The guilloche underprint was a minimal deterrent against counterfeiting — adequate for a note whose useful life was measured in months before currency unification under the new Czechoslovak state made it obsolete.