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70 Heller Kreith
| Issuer | Municipality of Kreith |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Emergency issue (Notgeld) of the Municipality of Kreith, printed in letterpress on plain paper. The face carries the denomination numeral '70' alongside the issuing authority's name and the relevant validity clause, framed within a simple border typical of Austrian municipal Notgeld of the 1918–1920 period. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse of this Austrian municipal Notgeld issue, carrying printed text with the redemption or validity conditions and the official stamp or seal of the Municipality of Kreith, consistent with standard Heller emergency currency of the early First Austrian Republic era. |
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Kreith is a small village in Tyrol, Austria. This 70 Heller note is one of the Notgeld issues produced by Austrian municipalities during the severe coin shortage of 1919–1921, when the collapse of the Habsburg economy left local communities printing their own fractional emergency money to make change for everyday transactions.
The Jaksch/Pick reference confirms this as a recognized catalogued type, but Kreith's series remains obscure — small-village Notgeld from the Tyrolean communes attracted far less collector attention than the elaborate artistic issues from larger Austrian towns, which kept print runs low and survival rates uneven.