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30 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kreisbach (Municipality of Kreisbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR470b-30 |
| Obverse description | The left panel carries two line-engraved vignettes within a twig-bordered frame: an oval vignette at upper centre showing the ruined Galgenmauer am Dinglberg, flanked by the denomination numeral 30 on each side, and a larger rectangular view below of Schloss Kreisbach as it appeared in 1650, with its baroque towers and riverside setting. The right panel, separated by a vertical rule, bears the issuing authority text in Gothic blackletter script, the denomination in large display lettering, the redemption clause, the place and date of issue, and three manuscript facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Finanzreferent. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2. Auflage. WAPPEN der Chreusspache 1299 1360 |
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Kreisbach is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest communities, it issued its own Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The Gutenberg press in nearby St. Pölten handled a substantial volume of these local emergency notes for the surrounding region, which is why the printing quality across many Lower Austrian Notgeld issues is unusually consistent despite the chaotic circumstances of their origin.
The "b" suffix in the Jaksc/Pick reference indicates a variant — likely a color or paper difference from the "a" type.