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10 Heller Horn
| Issuer | Horn (Lower Austria), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER STADTGEMEINDE HORN ÜBER 10 HELLER DIE GEMEINDE HORN HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. HORN, AM 4. JUNI 1920. DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER GEMEINDERAT: |
| Reverse description | Pale green Notgeld printed in a cursive hand-lettered style on plain paper within a simple single-line rectangular border. A large circle at centre contains the numeral '10' above a stylised 'h' for Heller. Explanatory text in German script surrounds the central vignette on all sides, stating the total issue amount of 100,000 Kronen and the redemption conditions, with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft.' along the lower margin. The printer's imprint 'Druck J. Oserger Horn' and the designer's name 'Zimmermann' appear at the bottom corners. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was printed locally because the postwar coin shortage made small change functionally unavailable — not a financial crisis in the banking sense, but a grinding everyday problem that municipalities solved themselves. Horn, a market town in the Waldviertel, contracted with local printer J. Oserger rather than going to Vienna, which was standard practice for smaller communities that couldn't wait for a centralized solution.
The Zimmermann design credit is worth noting: many Notgeld issues of this period recycled generic vignettes, but named designers on Horn issues suggest at least some deliberate local artistic commission rather than stock imagery pulled from a printer's catalog.