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50 Heller Linz
| Issuer | Kolosseum Gesellschaft m. b. H., Linz a. D. |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | KOLOSSEUM LINZ a. D. Varieté Kino GUTSCHEIN über Fünfzig Heller Dieser Gutschein wird im Verkehr mit unseren Gästen zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot ausgegeben und für den Betrag von 50 Hellern bis längstens 31. Juli 1920 eingelöst. KOLOSSEUM Gesellschaft m. b. H. LINZ a. D. 50 |
| Reverse description | Plain pinkish paper stock with a blue dashed and scalloped ornamental border identical in style to the obverse. The issuer's name KOLOSSEUM LINZ. appears at top beneath a pair of thin parallel rules. The word Gutschein über is set in bold blue display type at centre top, above a geometric cross-hatched guilloche underprint panel in grey-blue enclosing the large numeral 50 flanked on either side by the word Heller. The validity legend Giltig nur bis 31. Juli 1920 is placed at foot between decorative rule pairs, with the printer's imprint Druck v. Lanchammer, Linz along the right vertical margin. |
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Kolosseum Gesellschaft m.b.H. was an entertainment venue operator in Linz, and this 50 Heller note is a piece of Notgeld issued during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar period. Municipal governments, businesses, and private companies alike were authorized — or simply tolerated — in producing their own small-denomination scrip when the central authorities could not supply enough fractional currency to keep commerce moving.
Lanchammer was a local Linz printer, and the Kolosseum issue is among the more unusual private-issuer examples from Upper Austria, given that the backing entity was a commercial entertainment business rather than a municipality or cooperative.