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25 Heller
| Issuer | Kroisbach, Commune of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark violet-brown ink over a salmon-pink underprint, the note is enclosed within a thick rectangular border with ornamental corner devices. A central oval vignette presents a rural landscape of Kroisbach with farm buildings, bare winter trees in the foreground, and birds in flight above the horizon. The denomination "25 Heller" appears in circular cartouches at left and right, with a decorative ribbon banner at top centre carrying the issuer inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black letterpress on light green paper, the reverse is enclosed within a plain double-rule rectangular frame. A justified text block in German sets out the redemption terms, the statutory penalty for counterfeiting, and the name and title of the local authority. The notation "Auflage I" (Edition I) appears in the lower right corner, outside the inner frame, identifying this as the first print run. |
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Kroisbach was a small commune in the Steiermark region of Austria, and like hundreds of similar rural municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the coin shortage that followed the First World War. These small-denomination Heller notes filled the gap left by hoarded metal coinage, circulating purely on local trust rather than any formal banking guarantee. The 25 Heller denomination was among the most common issued across Austrian communes precisely because it matched the fractional transactions — bread, postage, tram fare — that metallic currency had previously handled.