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10 Heller Gurten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gurten (Municipality of Gurten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and grey-brown on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border of guilloche-style scalloped and dotted elements. A central vignette in woodcut or letterpress style depicts a standing male figure in period dress, arms outstretched, flanked by two circular medallions bearing symbolic motifs — an anchor with a bee and foliage to the left, and a fan-like floral spray to the right. The denomination numeral '10' appears in green at lower left and lower right within ornamental cartouches, while the curved legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Gurten' arches across the upper field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemd. Gurten Zehn Heller Die Gemeinde-Vorstenung v. Gurten hat in ihrer Sitzung v. 16. Juni 1920 beschlossen Notgeld auszugeben u. haftet dafür mit ihrem ganzen aktiven Vermögen Der Bürgermeister: Der Stellvertreter: Zehn Heller Einlösetermin 31. Oktober 1920 Nachahmung verboten! |
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Gurten is a small municipality in the Bernese Oberland, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the acute small-coin shortage that gripped much of central Europe in the aftermath of the First World War. Switzerland, though neutral, was not immune — metal had been hoarded, melted, or exported, and by 1918–1920 municipal and private issuers across the country were printing emergency Kleingeldersatz in denominations too small for any bank to bother with.
The Jaksc reference places this firmly within the documented Swiss notgeld corpus, though Gurten examples surface rarely enough that population data is essentially nonexistent.