30 Heller Kreisbach

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.