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50 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kreisbach (Municipality of Kreisbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of Kreisbach castle, rendered in a linear illustrative style typical of Austrian Notgeld issues, accompanied by the denomination inscription and the name of the issuing municipality. The layout follows the standard format of Lower Austrian emergency currency of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central heraldic vignette of two conjoined coats of arms surmounted by a crested knight's helmet with a shell finial, the dexter shield charged with a bird in flight and the sinister shield with a crayfish, the whole flanked by crossed lances and elaborate foliate mantling. The legend 'Wappen der Chreusspache' appears alongside the historical dates '1299' and '1360', referencing the documented armorial records of the locality. The edition designation '6. Auflage.' is set in Gothic blackletter script at the head of the face. |
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Kreisbach is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued Notgeld during the post-WWI currency crisis when the new Austrian state could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday commercial needs. The Gemeinde series from this period was entirely a local stopgap — accepted at the village level, redeemable in theory, and often never redeemed at all, which is how so many survive in uncirculated condition while the issuing municipality has no surviving records of the redemption process.
The Jaksc catalogue reference places this firmly within the documented Lower Austrian municipal issues, though print runs for Kreisbach specifically were never formally published.