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50 Heller Korneuburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Korneuburg (City of Korneuburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey Notgeld note with a bold dark banner across the top bearing the legend KASSENSCHEIN DER STADT. To the left, a vignette depicts the Korneuburg town church with architectural detail rendered in a woodcut style. At centre, the denomination numeral 50 appears within a large dark oval cartouche, below which HELLER is inscribed in bold letterpress. To the right, a block of text states the municipality's liability guarantee. The date KORNEUBURG MÄRZ 1920 appears in the lower centre, with three manuscript signatures below the titles DER VIZE BÜRGERMEISTER and DER BÜRGERMEISTER. |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER STADT KORNEUBURG 50 HELLER KORNEUBURG MÄRZ 1920. DER BÜRGERMEISTER. DER VIZE BÜRGERMEISTER. DIE GEMEINDE KORNEUBURG HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. |
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Korneuburg's 50 Heller Notgeld from 1920 belongs to the vast wave of emergency municipal coinage-substitutes that flooded Austria following the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local authorities scrambling to fill a severe coin shortage, and hundreds of towns — Korneuburg among them — issued their own small-denomination paper scrip under powers granted by the Austrian government. These were never intended as banknotes in any formal sense; they were stopgap instruments, redeemable locally and theoretically called in once coinage returned to circulation.
The JPR0466b suffix suggests this is one of at least two known varieties for Korneuburg's 50 Heller — likely a color or text variant, though both are scarce by any measure given the small municipal print runs.