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50 Heller Krieglach
| Issuer | Krieglach, Municipality of |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue on grey paper with a lace-style ornamental border matching the obverse, the reverse carries a circular cartouche at upper centre enclosing a vignette of a Gothic church tower, and a smaller vignette of a Gothic portal arch at lower centre. Large numerals "50" appear at left and right within the design, with "Heller" inscribed in each corner; the central text block in Gothic script states the redemption conditions, provisions for the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister signatures, and an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
| Reverse lettering | Heller 50 Die Gemeinde Krieglach löst diesen Gutschein bis 31. Oktober 1920 in gesetzl. Bargelde ein. Der Bürgermeister: Die Vizebürgermeister: Die Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft. |
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Krieglach is a small market town in the Styrian Mürz valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — when the wartime coin shortage stripped everyday commerce of its smallest denominations. The 50 Heller denomination was among the most practical for local transactions, covering the kind of minor purchases that coins had previously handled without thought.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was typically authorized under provincial guidelines and circulated strictly within the issuing community. The Jaksch/Pick reference confirms this as one of the documented Styrian issues, but surviving examples in any grade are genuinely scarce simply because the redemption pools were small and local recordkeeping was inconsistent.