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50 Heller
| Issuer | Kroisbach, Commune of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark-toned letterpress-printed note with a decorative outer border enclosing two circular denomination medallions at left and right, each inscribed '50 Heller'. A central oval vignette in salmon-pink tones renders a rural landscape with bare trees in the foreground and a village panorama in the background. Above the vignette, a ribbon banner carries the issuer inscription 'GUTSCHEIN KROISBACH' in bold uppercase lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light green paper with a double-rule rectangular black border frame. The central text block presents the redemption and anti-counterfeiting notice in justified letterpress typography, followed by the local authority's designation and the name of the Ortsvorsteher. The edition notation 'Auflage I' appears in the lower right corner outside the text block. |
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A Kriegsnotgeld or postwar local emergency issue from Kroisbach, a small commune in what is now Austria. These hyper-local heller denominations were a direct response to the coin shortage that gripped the former Habsburg territories after 1918 — municipal and commercial issuers printed their own small-change substitutes when the central monetary system effectively collapsed.
Kroisbach's issues are among the more obscure commune-level notgeld, with survival rates dependent almost entirely on collector redemptions at the time rather than any systematic archiving.