30 Heller Kreisbach

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.