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20 Heller Gumpoldskirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gumpoldskirchen (Municipality of Gumpoldskirchen) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Gumpoldskirchen über Zwanzig 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 F. SEITENEBERG, WIEN III. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain uncoated paper in a uniform cream-beige tone with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Gumpoldskirchen is a small wine-producing town south of Vienna, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortages that followed the First World War. The Austrian state was effectively unable to supply small change to its own population in 1919–1920, leaving local authorities to fill the gap with locally printed scrip, redeemable only within the issuing community.
F. Seiteneberg was a Vienna commercial printer, not a security printing house, which is exactly the point — these were stopgap instruments, not formal banknotes. The JPR reference places this firmly within the Jaksch catalog of Lower Austrian municipal issues.