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20 Heller Guntramsdorf Brown
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Guntramsdorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 August 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-coloured reverse enclosed within a thin double-rule rectangular border. Three lines of German text in the upper portion state the municipality's redemption pledge, specifying the period 1–31 August 1920. At centre, a large circular official stamp of the Marktgemeinde Guntramsdorf bears the community coat of arms with the legend MARKTGEMEINDE · GUNTRAMSDORF pol. Bez. MÖDLING N.Öst. around the circumference; below, two ruled signature lines are designated Der Bürgermeister at left and Der Finanzreferent at right, each bearing a handwritten manuscript signature. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Guntramsdorf löst diesen Kassenschein in der Zeit vom 1. – 31. August 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. MARKTGEMEINDE · GUNTRAMSDORF pol. Bez. MÖDLING N.Öst. Der Bürgermeister: Der Finanzreferent: |
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Guntramsdorf is a market town south of Vienna, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own small-denomination Notgeld to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination was the workhorse of this emergency municipal scrip — practical for everyday micro-transactions at a time when the postwar inflation was already grinding through the krone's purchasing power.
The brown color variant distinguishes this from other Heller denominations in the Guntramsdorf series, a common differentiating convention among Austrian Notgeld issuers printing multiple values simultaneously.