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20 Heller Horn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Horn (Municipality of Horn, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-white paper with a fine diagonal line underprint across the entire field. The title legend 'Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Horn' appears in bold blackletter type at the top, followed by 'über' centred below. A central rectangular vignette in blue carries a geometric floral guilloche pattern with the denomination '20' in large numerals flanked by 'Heller' on either side in bold type. Below the vignette, a three-line guarantee text is printed in Gothic script, followed by the issue date 'Horn, am 25. Jänner 1920' and three manuscript-style signature lines identifying the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Horn über Heller 20 Heller Die Gemeinde Horn haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Horn, am 25. Jänner 1920. Der Vizebürgermeister: F. Maudner. Der Bürgermeister: A. Wizlsperger. Der Gemeinderat: R. Haagen. |
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Horn is a small market town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and this note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — issued in the years following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination was among the smallest issued at the local level, circulating primarily for petty transactions when coin shortages made even minor change impossible to make.
Three signatories authenticated the issue: the mayor, deputy mayor, and a council member — unusually formal for a denomination this small.