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| Issuer | Gemeinde Kirchberg an der Donau (Municipality of Kirchberg an der Donau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 99 KIRCHBERG AN DER DONAU ERSTE AUFLAGE |
| Reverse description | Plain cream stock printed entirely in green. The upper portion carries a five-line German text block guaranteeing redemption in legal tender within four weeks of public notice and warning against counterfeiting. Below the text appear three handwritten manuscript signatures accompanied by printed role designations; the printer's imprint 'F. KLING, URFAHR.' is set in small capitals at the lower left. |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues produced in the chaotic years following the collapse of the Habsburg economy, this 99 Heller piece from Kirchberg an der Donau was printed by F. Kling in Urfahr — a small printing firm across the Danube from Linz that handled a number of local emergency currency contracts in Upper Austria during this period. The odd 99 Heller denomination, like similar near-round values seen elsewhere in Austrian Notgeld, was almost certainly chosen to discourage hoarding by making the notes awkward to accumulate in round sums.