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10 Heller Gaming
| Issuer | Gaming, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein DER GEMEINDE GAMING 10 10 Zehn Heller |
| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown on cream paper, the reverse bears a text-heavy layout within a decorative ruled border, with a bold red overprinted numeral '10' as a central underprint device. The upper section carries the note's title and denomination, followed by a multi-line legal text in German specifying the non-interest-bearing nature of the voucher, its acceptance period, and the redemption deadline of 31 December 1920. Below the legal text appear three manuscript signatures under the printed titles of Bürgermeister, I. Vizebürgermeister, and II. Vizebürgermeister. |
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Austrian Notgeld at the municipal level proliferated after the First World War when small-denomination coin effectively vanished from circulation. Gaming is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued emergency notes in 1920 to fill the gap left by hoarded Heller coinage. The engraver credit to Perko E. is worth noting — local Notgeld was frequently a cottage industry, with artwork commissioned from regional illustrators and printed by small provincial firms rather than established security printers.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0220a-10 places this within the standard Lower Austrian municipal series. Paper survivability varies considerably in this category; the notes were never meant to last.