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50 Heller Herzogenburg
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld printed in black and green on plain paper, with a decorative border of interlocking green guilloche chain and black stylised leaf motifs running along all four edges. The denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' is set in bold black Fraktur script at centre, beneath the word 'Gutschein' and the conjunction 'über', with a striking red ornamental interlace underprint superimposed across the central field. Edition ('2. Auflage') and series ('Serie 4') designations appear at upper left and upper right respectively, while a three-line explanatory text in Fraktur occupies the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central vignette, printed in dark grey-green letterpress, presenting a panoramic townscape of Herzogenburg with the Augustinian monastery church rising above the rooftops, its Baroque tower forming the visual centrepiece of the composition. The vignette is framed by a plain rectangular border, itself set within a wide decorative surround of green guilloche scroll-work. No additional text or denomination appears on this face. |
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Herzogenburg is a small Lower Austrian market town best known for its Augustinian monastery, and during the acute coin shortage of the First World War and its immediate aftermath, local businesses and municipalities across Austria issued their own small-denomination emergency notes — Notgeld — to keep commerce moving. The Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg was simply the town's print shop, pressed into service as both printer and nominal issuing authority for want of any more formal institution willing to take on the task.
These hyper-local issues were rarely produced in large quantities, and survival rates depend almost entirely on whether collectors in the region held examples back from use.