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50 Heller Horn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Horn (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER STADTGEMEINDE ÜBER HORN ÜBER 50 HELLER DIE GEMEINDE HORN HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. HORN, AM 4. JUNI 1920. DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER GEMEINDERAT: |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in salmon-pink, the reverse is dominated by a large circular underprint containing the numeral '50' interlaced with the stylised monogram 'h', serving as a decorative denomination device at centre. Cursive script text in German Kurrent hand flanks the circle on both sides, setting out the terms of issue: the municipality issued Kassenscheine to a total value of 100,000 Kronen to alleviate the small-change shortage, redeemable without interest by the Gemeinde Horn until 15 October 1920 and accepted as legal tender. A single-line anti-counterfeiting warning in cursive script runs along the bottom edge. |
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Horn's 50 Heller notgeld of 1920 belongs to the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency, issued well after the initial wartime shortages that prompted the first notgeld issues from 1916 onward. By 1920 the coin shortage that justified these emissions had become almost a pretext — many towns, Horn among them, were producing notes that functioned as much as collectibles sold to notgeld enthusiasts as genuine circulating currency. The practice was widespread enough that Austrian authorities eventually moved to suppress it.
Printed locally by Brück & Beiser, the note is a purely domestic production with no involvement from the larger Vienna printers who handled most official issues.