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20 Heller Horn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Horn (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Tan and cream letterpress note with a panoramic vignette of the town of Horn in the background, divided between a church spire at left and a tower at right. The central text panel carries the issuer name and denomination in bold Gothic blackletter type. Below the denomination text, a guarantee clause in smaller type states the municipality's full liability, dated Horn, 4 June 1920. Denomination numerals '20' appear in each corner, and three manuscript signatures appear at the foot beneath printed role designations for Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Horn über Zwanzig Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Horn Gemeinde Kassenscheine im Betrage von 100.000 Kronen aus. Dieselben sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Horn bis 15. Oktober 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Druck: J. Berger Horn / Kiumermann lp. |
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Horn's 20 Heller notgeld of 1920 belongs to the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — issued after the imperial collapse had already gutted confidence in central bank paper, and local governments were still scrambling to cover the small-denomination gap that metallic coinage could no longer fill. Stadtgemeinde Horn handled production locally through J. Berger, keeping the entire operation — design, printing, distribution — within the town itself, which was unusual even by notgeld standards.
The JPR0397IIa designation indicates a second type within the Horn series, suggesting an earlier issue preceded this one. Kiumermann's designer credit is otherwise unattested in major notgeld references.