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30 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Guntramsdorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the obverse carries a triptych vignette divided into three panels: at left, cattle grazing on a hillside beneath a rising sun; at centre, a church steeple rising above a village streetscape framed by an arched cartouche bearing the legend KASSEN SCHEIN; and at right, a vineyard with grape clusters beside an industrial chimney stack and factory roofline. The denomination appears twice at the lower edge in oval cartouches inscribed 30 HELLER, flanked by a decorative grape-bunch motif. The inscriptions GEMEINDE and GUNTRAMSDORF run along the upper left and upper right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The plain light-coloured reverse is enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border and carries a three-line redemption text in German. At centre, a circular official municipality stamp bears the arms of Guntramsdorf and the legend MARKTGEMEINDE GUNTRAMSDORF pol. Bes. MÖDLING N.Ösl. Below the stamp, two signature lines are provided, captioned Der Bürgermeister: at left and Der Finanzreferent: at right, each bearing a manuscript signature. |
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Guntramsdorf is a market town south of Vienna in Lower Austria, and this 30 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. With the old empire gone and the new Republic's small-denomination coinage in chronic short supply, local authorities — from city councils down to tiny Marktgemeinden — were legally permitted to issue their own emergency scrip. Guntramsdorf did exactly that.
The two signatures, Joh. Lorenz and Paul Penauetz, are the kind of local-official attestations that made each municipality's issue nominally distinct and theoretically redeemable only within that jurisdiction — a system that worked until it didn't.