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50 Heller Kirchberg an der Pielach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kirchberg an der Pielach (Municipality of Kirchberg an der Pielach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse with a decorative dotted outer border, bearing a six-line regional folk verse in Kurrent script at the top centre. Below the verse, a validity clause in Gothic type states the note is redeemable until 31 December 1920, with redemption accepted between 15 and 31 December 1920. The place and date of issue 'Kirchberg a. d. Pielach, im Juni 1920' is printed in Gothic script, followed by three manuscript signatures of municipal officials, with the printer's imprint 'Pressvereinsdruckerei, St. Pölten.' at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Pielachtal, Pielachtal, Schönes Tal, sag'ns überall. Schöne Berge, schöne Wälder, Schöne Wiesen, schöne Felder, Starke Leut' und a magere Kost, Hollaro und an guak'n Most! Dieser Kassenschein ist gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 und wird in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 eingelöst. Kirchberg a. d. Pielach, im Juni 1920. Pressvereinsdruckerei, St. Pölten. |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced in the immediate postwar years, when the collapse of the Habsburg economy left municipalities scrambling to cover a severe shortage of small-denomination coinage. Kirchberg an der Pielach is a small market town in Lower Austria, and its participation in the Notgeld wave was purely practical — not commemorative, not speculative. The Pressvereinsdruckerei in St. Pölten, a Catholic press cooperative, handled a significant volume of these regional emergency issues for Lower Austrian communities, which accounts for the typographic consistency across many notes of this type.
The JPR0442b suffix indicates a variant within the Kirchberg series — likely a color or paper distinction from the 0442a issue.