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| Issuer | Gemeinde Bad Gastein (Municipality of Bad Gastein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Heller Badgastein Reißenbichler Salzburg |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Badgastein Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920 Bürgermeister: Gemeinderat: |
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Bad Gastein's Heller notgeld was issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria after the First World War, when hoarding of metal coinage left municipalities scrambling to fill the gap with locally printed paper. Hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden did the same in 1920, but the Bad Gastein series has modest collector interest due to the spa town's association with Habsburg aristocracy — it was a favored retreat of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Reißenbichler was a Salzburg-based printer responsible for several regional notgeld issues across the province. The JPR reference places this squarely in the Jaksch/Pick notgeld catalog for Austria.