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20 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kreisbach (Municipality of Kreisbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Left half occupied by two line-engraved vignettes: an oval vignette at upper centre with the ruins of Galgenmäuer am Dinglberg, flanked by large numeral '20' on each side, and below a rectangular landscape vignette of Schloss Kreisbach as it appeared in 1650, captioned 'SCHLOSS KREISBACH IM JAHRE 1650'. Right half carries the issuing text in Gothic blackletter script, the denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' in bold script, the place and date 'Kreisbach, im Mai 1920', and three manuscript signatures beneath the titles Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Finanzreferent. Printer's imprint 'GUTENBERG, ST. PÖLTEN' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 6. Auflage. WAPPEN der 1299 Chreusspache 1360 |
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Kreisbach is a small Lower Austrian village, and this note is exactly what that implies: a hyperlocal emergency issue printed during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's post-WWI economic collapse. The Gutenberg press in St. Pölten produced Notgeld for dozens of Lower Austrian municipalities in this period, making it a reliable but entirely regional operation — nothing like the elaborate collector-targeted Notgeld flooding out of German cities at the same moment.
Three signatories authenticate this piece: the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and a designated Finanzreferent — an unusually formal financial officer credit for a village-level issue.