Notgeld

Museum number:
7-9774a
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2107009774a
Alternate number:
19 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4520
Description:
Currency, paper, "notgeld" 50 Heller, orange on white honeycomb pattern; Community voucher, signed by Burgermeister; picture of town of Gunskirchen on back; dated 30 November, 1920. Length 7.6 cm x 5.1 cm. Used as emergency money issued by municipalities following World War I. Collected early 1930s.
Donor:
George Leitmann and Nancy Leitmann
Collection place:
Gunskirchen, Upper Austria
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe, Austria, Gunskirchen
Production place:
Gunskirchen, Upper Austria
Culture or time period:
Austrian
Collector:
Josef Leitmann
Collection date:
early 1930s
Materials:
Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Notgelden
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Notgeld, accession number 7-9774a, described as Currency, paper, "notgeld" 50 Heller, orange on white honeycomb pattern; Community voucher, signed by Burgermeister; picture of town of Gunskirchen on back; dated 30 November, 1920. Length 7.6 cm x 5.1 cm. Used as emergency money issued by municipalities following World War I. Collected early 1930s.

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