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20 Kronen
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Reichenberg (City of Reichenberg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Ausgabe C STADTGEMEINDE REICHENBERG No 066878 GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZWANZIG KRONEN Gültig bis 15. Feber 1919. REICHENBERG, den 30. Oktober 1918. Für die Stadtgemeinde Reichenberg: Bürgermeister Stadtrat |
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| Signature(s) | Bürgermeister (signature illegible) and Stadtrat (two signatures, illegible) |
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Reichenberg — today Liberec in northern Bohemia — was one of the largest German-speaking cities in the Bohemian crownlands, and this note dates to the precise moment of imperial collapse. The 30 October 1918 print date falls one day after the proclamation of Czechoslovakia and on the same day German-Bohemian deputies in Vienna declared the short-lived Province of German Bohemia. The city was issuing emergency scrip in a political vacuum, with no certainty about which currency authority would ultimately prevail.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was a stopgap against coin hoarding and supply disruption, not a separatist statement — though the timing makes the distinction thin.