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25 Heller Kilb
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kilb (Market Town of Kilb) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink note printed in teal-green ink throughout. The left portion carries the denomination '25' in a framed cartouche flanked by the word 'Heller' on either side, below which the text 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Kilb' is set in Gothic blackletter script, with the validity date 'Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920' and place-date 'Kilb, 1. Mai 1920' beneath. To the right, a detailed letterpress vignette portrays the local church tower inscribed 'Anno 1565', surrounded by period architecture and foliage; the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appears at lower left, and the printer's imprint 'Radinger, Mariazell' is found at the bottom centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Heller 25 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Kilb Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Kilb, 1. Mai 1920 Der Bürgermeister: RADINGER, MARIAZELL Anno 1565 |
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Kilb is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. These local issues were authorized under postwar Austrian law permitting municipalities to fill the gap left by a central monetary system that simply could not produce enough coin to function.
Radinger of Mariazell was a regional printer responsible for a cluster of Lower Austrian Notgeld issues from this period. The JPR0436 series for Kilb is catalogued in two varieties, this being the first.