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50 Heller Krieglach
| Issuer | Municipality of Krieglach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown and red on grey paper, the obverse is framed by an ornate guilloche border of scrollwork with dot-pearl edging. A central circular vignette bears a bust portrait of the Styrian writer Peter Rosegger, wreathed in edelweiss blossoms, flanked at left and right by oval vignettes of figures in traditional Styrian folk costume. The issuer inscription 'Gutschein Gemd. Krieglach' runs across the top in decorative script, the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' along the bottom with numerals '50' at lower left and right, and the small notation 'III. AUFLAGE' at the lower left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gemd. Krieglach Peter Rosegger 50 Fünfzig Heller 50 III. AUFLAGE |
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Krieglach is a small market town in Styria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the postwar economic collapse, it issued its own emergency paper in 1920 when small-change coinage had all but vanished from circulation. These Notgeld issues were a local stopgap — technically illegal tender outside the issuing community, backed by nothing more than municipal goodwill and the assumption that redemption would eventually follow.
The JPR0480e designation places this within the Jaksch cataloguing of Styrian Notgeld, a series notable for its sheer volume of issuing authorities, many of which produced only a single denomination run before the stabilization of the Austrian crown made further issues unnecessary.