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10 Heller Kilb
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kilb (Market Town of Kilb) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress Notgeld note on cream paper with a decorative scrollwork border. At upper left, a vignette of the Kilb parish church dated 1519; at right, an illustration of the Pestsäule (plague column) dated 1560. The central field carries facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderäte. The denomination '10 HELLER' appears in a ruled box at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in green on cream paper, with a dense foliate guilloche underprint filling the central field. The text is set in blackletter (Fraktur) typography, with the large stylised town name 'Kilb' as the dominant design element. A legal disclaimer and the redemption deadline are stated at the foot of the note. |
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Kilb is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following World War One. These hyperlocal issues were produced in enormous variety between roughly 1919 and 1922, often printed by regional firms with no particular numismatic infrastructure behind them. The Jaksc/Pick reference places this squarely within that catalogue of Austrian municipal Notgeld.
The 10 Heller denomination was among the most common face values in this wave of issues — small enough to replace the coins people were hoarding or melting, numerous enough to actually move through local commerce.