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50 Heller Herzogenburg
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow guilloche underprint with interlaced geometric border pattern. Central red circular vignette bears an ornate monogram in Gothic script, flanked left and right by denomination '50 Heller' in black letterpress. Series number in red at upper left; issuer name and redemption clause in Fraktur script above and below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein für 50 Heller zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot herausgegeben von der Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg. Nachahmung wird gerichtlich verfolgt. |
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Herzogenburg is a small Lower Austrian town best known for its Augustinian monastery, and during the currency chaos following Austria-Hungary's collapse in 1918–1919, local printers across the region began issuing their own emergency money — Notgeld — to compensate for the acute shortage of small-denomination coins. The Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg, a local print shop rather than any banking institution, both designed and produced this 50 Heller piece for purely local use.
That a commercial printer served simultaneously as issuer and manufacturer tells you everything about how improvised this system was.