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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hörsching (Municipality of Hörsching) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld printed on a ruled background with a chain-link border frame. To the right, a line-engraved vignette presents a panoramic view of the village of Hörsching with a church steeple and surrounding buildings; radiating sunburst lines emanate from the centre-left toward the vignette. The denomination '20' and the word 'Heller' are inscribed in Gothic Fraktur script at the lower left, with the issuer legend and series letter 'A' at the upper portion; a small artist's signature ('Heiss Richter') appears at the lower right of the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Landgemeinde Hörsching 20 Heller A |
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Hörsching is a small municipality in Upper Austria, just west of Linz. This 20 Heller notgeld was issued in 1920, well into the postwar emergency currency period that saw hundreds of Austrian communes printing their own small-denomination scrip to compensate for the chronic shortage of fractional coinage. The Austro-Hungarian monetary system had collapsed, and the new Republic of Austria was in no position to supply adequate coin to rural communities in the immediate term.
The Jaksc catalogue reference places this firmly within the documented Upper Austrian notgeld corpus — these municipal issues were typically printed in small local runs, and survival rates vary sharply even within a single commune's series.