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50 Heller
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre notgeld on plain paper with a geometric guilloche underprint border. A red Austrian imperial eagle vignette is centered below the title inscription, flanked by the denomination "50 Heller" repeated on each side. The lower portion carries a three-line redemption clause in Fraktur script, with "Serie 1" printed in red at left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg. Gutschein über Serie 1 50 Heller 50 Heller Dieser Gutschein wird im Verkehr mit unserer Kundschaft zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot ausgegeben und für obigen Betrag eingelöst. |
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Herzogenburg is a small Lower Austrian market town, and in 1920 its local printing house — the Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg — was doing what hundreds of Austrian municipal printers were doing at the time: producing emergency small-change notes to fill the gap left by the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the near-total disappearance of metal coinage. These Notgeld issues were self-authorized, locally redeemable, and often printed in tiny runs on whatever stock was available.
The Buchdruckerei being both issuer and printer is entirely typical of the smaller Austrian Notgeld — no banking intermediary, no official sanction beyond local necessity.