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50 Heller Gugu

Issuer Ortsgemeinde Gugu
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Reference(s) Jaksc/Pick#JPR0307IIa-50
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Obverse lettering 50 HELLER
GUTSCHEIN DER ORTSGEMEINDE GUGU
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Signature(s) Rudolf Haider
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Gugu is a small village in what was then the Duchy of Carniola, today's Slovenia. This note is a Notgeld piece issued by the local commune — one of hundreds of Austrian municipal emergency currencies produced during the severe coin shortage of the First World War period, when even low-denomination metal coinage effectively vanished from everyday trade.

The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0307IIa places this within the documented Slovenian-area Austrian Notgeld series. Rudolf Haider's signature as issuing authority is the only administrative trace most of these village-level notes left behind.

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