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20 Heller Gars am Kamp
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gars am Kamp (Market Town of Gars am Kamp) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The left half carries an oval vignette of the Ruins of Gars castle set within a wooded landscape, captioned 'Ruine Gars' at the top, below which a four-line liability text in German Kurrent script is set, dated 'Gars, am 28. April 1920', with two facsimile signatures of the Vize-Bürgermeister and the Bürgermeister. The right half is dominated by the large municipal coat of arms of Gars am Kamp rendered in bold woodcut style, overlaid by a diagonal scroll bearing the legend 'Notgeld der Marktgemeinde' in Gothic lettering, with the denomination '20 Heller' inscribed at upper right and the town name 'Gars a/Kamp' on a ribbon cartouche below the arms. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ruine Gars -20- Heller. Notgeld der Marktgemeind. Gars a/Kamp. Die Gemeinde haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Gars, am 28. April 1920. Der Vize-Bürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: |
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Gars am Kamp is a small market town in Lower Austria's Kamptal wine region, and this 20 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that Austrian municipalities were forced to produce after World War I when small-denomination coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation. The printer, F. Berger of Horn, handled a significant volume of Kamptal-area emergency currency during this period — Horn being the nearest town of any commercial scale to Gars.
Karl Elleder's involvement as designer places this above the purely functional end of the Notgeld spectrum. Elleder contributed designs to multiple Lower Austrian issues around 1920.