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50 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Kreisbach, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 96 × 55 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a heraldic vignette of two conjoined coats of arms surmounted by a crested helmet, flanked by crossed swords, with the inscription 'Wappen der Chreusspache' and the dates '1299' and '1360' printed to either side. The heading '4. Auflage' (4th issue) appears at the top in Gothic blackletter script, printed in blue-grey on plain paper. |
| Reverse lettering | 4. Auflage. WAPPEN der Chreusspache 1299 1360 |
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Kreisbach is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to fill the void left by the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system and the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation. These hyper-local issues were produced in enormous variety across Austria between 1919 and 1922, often by local printers with no particular sophistication, and the 50 Heller denomination was among the most common face values chosen precisely because it matched the most acute gap in everyday transactions.
The JPR470d suffix suggests this is one of multiple varieties within the Kreisbach series — likely distinguished by color, serial numbering, or minor typographic differences from sibling issues.