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50 Heller Kilb
| Issuer | Pfarrgemeinde Kilb (Parish Community of Kilb) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink note printed in dark blue ink, with denomination numerals '50' set within ornate foliate cartouches at upper left and upper right corners. The central text in Gothic Fraktur script reads 'Gutschein der Pfarrgemeinde Kilb über Fünfzig Heller', with a small vignette of a beehive centred between the words 'Fünfzig' and 'Heller'. A circular guilloche rosette forms a light underprint at centre, and the lower portion carries three manuscript signatures above the printed legend 'DRUCK RADINGER, MARIAZELL.' with role designations 'Der Pfarrer:', 'Sparkasse-Direkt.-Stellv.:' and 'Sparkasse-Direktor:'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Sparkasse Kilb und Umgebung wird für Rechnung der Pfarrgemeinde Kilb diese Gutscheine bis längstens 31. Dezember 1920 einlösen. Gegeben zu Kilb, am 10. Juni 1920. |
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Austrian parish communities issuing their own emergency currency is unusual enough; a Catholic parish doing so is rarer still. Kilb is a small market town in Lower Austria, and in 1920 the Pfarrgemeinde — the ecclesiastical parish body, not the civil municipality — stepped in to produce Notgeld to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that persisted well after the First World War's end. The issuing authority here is explicitly clerical, which distinguishes this from the far more common municipal or merchant-association issues of the same period.
Druck Radinger in Mariazell handled the printing — a Styrian press better known for religious printed matter, given Mariazell's status as Austria's most prominent Catholic pilgrimage site.