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30 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kreisbach (Municipality of Kreisbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper ground bearing a central heraldic vignette of two paired coats of arms surmounted by a crested tournament helm with elaborate mantling, the left shield charged with a bird and the right shield charged with a crayfish, with flanking lances crossing behind both shields. Above the composition, the heading in Fraktur script identifies this as the 3rd print run, and flanking inscriptions identify the arms as those of the Wappen der Chreusspache, dated 1299 and 1360 respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | 3. Auflage. Wappen der 1299 Chreusspache 1360 |
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Kreisbach is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities it issued its own Notgeld during the postwar currency collapse when the central government could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce functioning. The Gutenberg printing house in nearby St. Pölten handled a considerable volume of these municipal emergency issues across the region — cost-effective for communities that needed small runs without travelling to Vienna.
The JPR470c designation places this within a documented series for Kreisbach, the suffix indicating a variant within the 1920 issue group. Surviving examples from villages of this size tend to show heavier wear than town issues, reflecting genuine daily use rather than collector hoarding at the time of issue.