Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Heller Kasten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kasten (Municipality of Kasten) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Cream ground enclosed within a light blue rectangular border frame. A central reddish-brown vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Kasten with a prominent church tower and adjacent buildings. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large bold type at left and right flanks, with 'Heller' above and the year '1920' below each numeral, while a decorative scroll banner at the foot carries the issuer name in Gothic blackletter script. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain cream ground enclosed by a dotted decorative border, with all text set entirely in Gothic blackletter script. The body text states the municipality's legal obligation to redeem the note in lawful currency by 30 September 1920, followed by the issuing authority designation and date of 30 May 1920, and a statutory counterfeiting warning at the foot. The printer's imprint 'Gross, St. Pölten' appears in small type at the lower left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Kasten is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy after the First World War. Coins vanished from circulation almost entirely by 1919–1920 as metal was hoarded and the new republic struggled to establish a functioning monetary supply, forcing hundreds of municipalities — including ones as minor as Kasten — to print their own emergency small change.
Gross of St. Pölten was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly what you'd expect from a village-level issue scrambling to fill a practical gap.