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50 Heller Gaming
| Issuer | Municipality of Gaming |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red and dark green letterpress Notgeld on cream paper, with a fine cross-hatched guilloche underprint filling the central field. A circular vignette at centre presents a view of the Carthusian monastery church of Gaming, overlaid by a banner cartouche bearing the municipality name GAMING in dark green capitals. The denomination numerals 50 appear in large bold red type to either side of the central vignette, with the word Heller in script below it; stylised laurel branches flank the left and right borders, and a small oval counter bearing the numeral 50 is printed at the foot of the note. The heading GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE appears at the top in bold red lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on cream paper with a large lightly-impressed underprint of the numeral 50 occupying the full field as a pale watermark-style background element, overlaid by a rosette guilloche ornament at centre. The text panel carries the full legal text of the voucher in German blackletter script, stating the note is non-interest-bearing, accepted by the Gemeinde Gaming until 31 December 1920 and redeemable in legal tender during 1–31 December 1920, followed by a counterfeiting warning. Three manuscript signatures appear below, identified by the printed captions Der Bürgermeister (centre), I. Vizebürgermeister (lower left) and II. Vizebürgermeister (lower right). |
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Austrian Notgeld at its most local. Gaming is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued emergency small-change notes during the prolonged coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 50 Heller denomination sat at the practical mid-point of daily retail transactions — exactly where metallic coinage had disappeared and where paper substitutes were most needed.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch catalog of Lower Austrian municipal issues, a classification system that reflects just how atomized Austrian Notgeld production actually was — each issuing body acting independently, with no central design mandate.