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99 Heller Kirchberg an der Donau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kirchberg an der Donau (Municipality of Kirchberg an der Donau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0441c-99 |
| Obverse description | The upper half of the note is divided into three vertical panels: the central vignette presents a letterpress view of a medieval castle or fortified tower set against a rocky hillside above a riverbank, printed in brown; the flanking panels carry stylised green leaf or frond motifs on a dark brown ground. The lower half is divided into three compartments, the outer two bearing the large numeral '99' in dark purple, with the inscriptions 'ERSTE' and 'AUFLAGE' below each respectively, while the central compartment carries the place-name inscription in bold capitals. A fine ruled border frames the entire composition, and a caption line appears along the upper margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on plain cream paper and carries a full block of German-language legal text in justified typeset lettering, declaring the municipality's guarantee of redemption within four weeks of public notice and warning against counterfeiting. Three manuscript signatures appear below the text, accompanied by handwritten designations of office; the printer's imprint appears at the lower left margin. |
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One of hundreds of Austrian Notgeld issues from the post-WWI collapse period, when municipal and regional authorities printed their own emergency small change to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The denomination — 99 Heller rather than a round figure — is characteristic of the period's chaotic improvisation, though some issuers chose odd amounts deliberately to discourage hoarding by making exchange arithmetic awkward.
F. Kling in Urfahr was a local commercial printer, not a specialist security firm. Urfahr itself was at this point still an independent town directly across the Danube from Linz, only incorporated into Linz in 1919.