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20 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 lettering | Notgeld der Marktgemeinde KILB 20 HELLER Bürgermeister: Vizebürgermeister: Gemeinderäte: 1519 Pestsäule 1660 |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress print on plain paper within a dense foliate guilloche border rendered in Gothic blackletter script throughout. The name 'Kilb' is set in an oversized decorative blackletter typeface at centre, flanked by the liability clause text. The redemption date is stated in a bold blackletter line across the lower portion of the note, and an anti-counterfeiting warning is printed beneath the main text block. |
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Kilb is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of the Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922 when small coin virtually disappeared from circulation following the economic collapse after the First World War. Municipal authorities across the country were left to fill the gap themselves. L. J. Pietz in Steyr was a regional commercial printer — not a security press — which accounts for the relatively modest production quality typical of provincial Austrian Notgeld from this period.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0436Ia places this within a catalogued series for Kilb, suggesting at least one other denomination was issued alongside it.