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75 Heller Gugu
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Gugu |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of a bearded male bust in left profile, rendered in a bold woodcut-like style against a plain background. The denomination numeral '75' appears in the upper corners of two flanking panels, each containing a shield-shaped heraldic device, with the legend 'HELLER' below each. A chain-link ornamental border frames the entire face, and a decorative lower band carries the issuer inscription in large Gothic letterpress type. |
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| Signature(s) | Rudolf Haider |
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Gugu is a small village in what was the Duchy of Carniola, today part of Slovenia. This 75 Heller note belongs to the Austrian Notgeld wave of 1918–1921, when the collapse of the Habsburg imperial economy left municipal and rural communities issuing their own emergency scrip simply to make change — the smallest imperial coins had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and wartime metal requisitioning.
Rudolf Haider's signature as the authorizing official is the only personnel record most of these village issues left behind. The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the Croatian-Slovenian series, a collecting sub-field that remains underdocumented compared to Austrian urban issues.