50 Heller Kilb

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.