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50 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kreisbach (Municipality of Kreisbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the castle of Kreisbach rendered in letterpress. The design is spare and unadorned, printed on plain cream paper without guilloche or underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5. Auflage WAPPEN der 1299 Chreusspache 1360 |
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Kreisbach is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it was forced into the notgeld business between 1920 and 1921 when the postwar coin shortage left everyday commerce at a standstill. The Austrian central authorities were in no position to address small-denomination circulation problems quickly, so the burden fell to individual Gemeinden — many with no meaningful administrative apparatus for such things.
The JPR470e designation places this within the Jaksch reference for Lower Austrian municipal emergency money. Kreisbach issues are not commonly encountered; small-run village notgeld frequently survived only in collector sets assembled at the time of issue rather than through actual circulation wear.