20 Heller Kreisbach

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.