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| Uitgever | Kolosseum Gesellschaft m. b. H., Linz a. D. |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Valuta | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed in blue and brown on pink paper, the obverse carries the issuer heading KOLOSSEUM LINZ a. D. with subsidiary legends Varieté and Kino flanking a central brown cameo-style female silhouette set within an oval cartouche. The diagonal overprint GUTSCHEIN in bold blue letterpress crosses the centre, above the denomination Fünfzig Heller in large type. Floral branch vignettes occupy the lateral margins, with the numeral 50 repeated in each corner. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Printed entirely in blue on pink paper, the plain reverse bears the heading KOLOSSEUM LINZ. above the word Gutschein and über in plain letterpress. A central panel with a geometric cross-hatched underprint pattern frames the bold numeral 50 flanked by the word Heller on each side. A dashed rectangular border frames the whole note, and the validity inscription appears at foot, with the printer's imprint along the right margin. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Kolosseum Gesellschaft m. b. H. was a commercial entertainment venue operator, and this Heller note belongs to the wave of privately issued notgeld that flooded Austria in 1920 as small-denomination coinage virtually disappeared from everyday transactions. Businesses, municipalities, and private firms across the country printed their own fractional currency to make change — a workaround that the Austrian government tolerated rather than endorsed.
Langhammer's Linz press handled a number of local notgeld contracts during this period. The issuer's commercial rather than municipal status makes this piece less common in systematic collections.