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10 Heller Gumpoldskirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gumpoldskirchen (Municipality of Gumpoldskirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink and brown Notgeld note printed in letterpress, with the central vignette showing a view of the Gumpoldskirchen town hall and church tower framed by grapevine ornamental borders. Four scalloped corner medallions carry the numeral '10' in white on a brown ground, while a bold black panel at centre-bottom bears the denomination in Gothic blackletter script. Three facsimile signatures appear along the lower margin beneath their respective official titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Gumpoldskirchen über Zehn Heller Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES KASSEN-SCHEINES WIRD BESTRAFT. DIE GEMEINDE GUMPOLDSKIRCHEN ÜBERNIMMT DIE HAFTUNG, DIESEN KASSENSCHEIN IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINZULÖSEN. DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER FINANZREFERENT: ENTWURF u. DRUCK E.SEITENEBEG, WIEN III. |
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Gumpoldskirchen's Heller notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency that flooded the country following the collapse of the Habsburg empire and the severe coin shortages that persisted into the early 1920s. Thousands of Austrian Gemeinden issued their own scrip during this period, redeemable locally and theoretically backed by municipal funds — in practice, many were never presented for redemption at all, absorbed instead by collectors who recognized early that the issues were ephemeral.
The printer, E. Seitenberg of Vienna's third district, handled a number of small municipal commissions of this type. Gumpoldskirchen, a wine-producing village south of Vienna, would have had a modest local economy but sufficient civic infrastructure to coordinate the issue.