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20 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kreisbach (Municipality of Kreisbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR470b-20 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Kreisbach N.Ö. über Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Kreisbach löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde bei der Gemeindekasse ein. Kreisbach, im Mai 1920. Bürgermeister: Vizebürgermeister: Finanzreferent: GALGENMÄUER AM DINGLBERG. SCHLOSS KREISBACH IM JAHRE 1850. GUTENBERG, ST. PÖLTEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, with the edition designation '2. Auflage' (Second Issue) printed in Gothic blackletter at the top centre. Below it, centred on the note, is a heraldic vignette of two overlapping shields surmounted by a crested tournament helm with mantling, identified by flanking inscriptions as the arms of the Chreusspache family, dated 1299 and 1360 respectively; the left shield bears a bird and the right a crayfish or similar creature. |
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Kreisbach is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination sits at the lower end of what was practical to print; most communes issued 10, 20, and 50 Heller to replace the small coins that had vanished from circulation almost entirely by 1919–1920.
Gutenberg in St. Pölten handled a significant volume of Lower Austrian Notgeld commissions during this period, which means the printing quality here is generally reliable, if unambitious. The JPR470b designation indicates a variant within the Kreisbach issue — likely a color or paper distinction from the 'a' type.