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50 Heller Kreisbach
| Issuer | Municipality of Kreisbach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the castle of Kreisbach rendered in a woodcut or letterpress style, set against a plain paper ground. The denomination and municipal identification text are printed in period typeface consistent with Austrian Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse description | Central heraldic vignette of the historical coat of arms of the Chreusspache family, composed of two escutcheons flanking a crested helm with ornate mantling, the left shield bearing a bird's talon and the right shield a crayfish. Flanking inscriptions read 'WAPPEN der 1299' to the left and 'Chreusspache 1360' to the right, referencing the historical dates of the armorial. The heading 'Auflage.' in Gothic blackletter type appears at the top centre, indicating the print edition. |
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Kreisbach is a small Lower Austrian village — population in 1920 was well under a thousand — which makes this Heller note an unusually minor issuer even by the standards of Austrian Notgeld. The postwar currency collapse forced municipalities of all sizes to print emergency money, but most notes from settlements this small were produced in very limited quantities and rarely left the immediate area.
The JPR470c designation places it within the Jaksch catalogue of Austrian local issues, the standard reference for this material.