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1 Krone Graslitz
| Issuer | Bezirk Graslitz |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1 Krone |
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| Obverse description | Pink and white letterpress-printed Gutschein (emergency voucher) on plain paper, with a dense guilloche underprint forming the central field. The issuing authority title BEZIRK GRASLITZ appears at the top, with the denomination EINE KRONE in large bold type at centre, flanked by the circular district seal at left and a red serial number at upper right. Below the denomination, a multi-line German text block states the redemption conditions, followed by the place and date of issue, three manuscript signatures above their respective titles, and the names of the three designated payment institutions at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 KRONE |
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Graslitz — now Kraslice in the Czech Republic — was a predominantly German-speaking industrial town in the Erzgebirge foothills, known for musical instrument manufacturing. This 1 Krone note is a classic example of the Kleingeldersatz emergency currency that flooded the Austro-Hungarian periphery in 1918 as the empire's monetary system buckled under wartime strain and coin hoarding stripped local commerce of any viable small change.
District-level authorities across Bohemia issued their own notgeld with little central coordination. The guilloche underprint was a minimal deterrent against counterfeiting — adequate for a note whose useful life was measured in months before currency unification under the new Czechoslovak state made it obsolete.