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25 Heller Hörsching
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hörsching (Municipality of Hörsching) |
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| Value | 25 Hellers (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Green and yellow tinted notgeld with a decorative chain border enclosing the central design. To the left, the denomination '25' appears in a large oval guilloche cartouche, with the word 'Heller' in Gothic script below. The centre of the note is dominated by two crossed wheat sheaves radiating linear sunburst lines, behind which a panoramic vignette of the town of Hörsching — including a church steeple and rooftops — is set within a framed panel to the right. The issuer's name 'Hörsching' is inscribed in large Gothic lettering across the upper portion, with the legend 'Gutschein der Landgemeinde' above; the artist's signature 'Hugo Richter' appears at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Circular red municipality stamp of Gemeinde Hörsching applied to the reverse. |
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Hörsching is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 25 Heller note belongs to the Notgeld emergency currency wave that swept Austrian communities between roughly 1919 and 1921, when chronic small-coin shortages left local economies functionally paralyzed. Gemeinden across the country were authorized — or simply compelled by circumstance — to issue their own fractional paper substitutes, with validity typically restricted to the issuing locality.
Hugo Richter's involvement as designer is a cut above the purely utilitarian productions many villages managed. The official stamp serves as the authentication mechanism, a common solution when engraved security printing was neither accessible nor affordable at this scale.