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50 Heller Gumpoldskirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gumpoldskirchen (Municipality of Gumpoldskirchen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and olive-green on plain paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of a large public building, likely the Gumpoldskirchen town hall or church, rendered in letterpress within an ornate foliate frame. The denomination numeral '50' appears in guilloche rosettes at each corner, with the value in Gothic blackletter script reading 'Fünfzig Heller' across the lower centre. Three manuscript signatures appear at the bottom, attributed respectively to the Vizebürgermeister, the Bürgermeister, and the Finanzreferent, with their titles printed beneath each. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Gumpoldskirchen Fünfzig Heller 50 Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES KASSENSCHEINES WIRD BESTRAFT. DIE GEMEINDE GUMPOLDSKIRCHEN ÜBERNIMMT DIE HAFTUNG, DIESEN KASSENSCHEIN IN GESETZLICHEM BARBELDE EINZULÖSEN. DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER FINANZREFERENT: ENTWURF u. DRUCK F. SEITENBERG, WIEN III. |
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Gumpoldskirchen is a Lower Austrian wine-producing village south of Vienna, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it began issuing its own Notgeld in 1920 when the postwar coinage shortage left small transactions effectively impossible. These municipal emergency issues were printed locally or by small Viennese commercial printers — F. Seitenberg, operating out of Vienna's third district, handled several such commissions. The series was not a banking instrument in any meaningful sense; the Gemeinde was simply plugging a gap that the Austrian state could not fill.
The Jaksc catalogue remains the primary reference for Austrian local Notgeld, and the "a" suffix on this pick number indicates it is the earlier of at least two known variants.