50 Heller Krieglach

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.