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1/2 Krone Bruck im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bruck im Pinzgau (Municipality of Bruck im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Vertically oriented emergency money (Notgeld) note with an orange guilloche border enclosing a central folk-art vignette signed by the artist Zucker, showing Saint Nicholas in a red robe and cap bearing a sack of gifts, accompanied by a child in a blue dress set against a snow-laden alpine fir landscape. The denomination fraction "1/2" appears within an oval cartouche at the top centre, with the Gothic-script legend "Krone" flanking it on either side. The lower panel, printed over a red guilloche underprint, carries the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script. |
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| Reverse description | Vertically oriented reverse with a multicoloured diamond-pattern guilloche border in pink, green, and yellow framing the central white field. A small oval vignette at the top centre repeats the Saint Nicholas motif, while the central field carries the redemption text in Gothic script followed by three manuscript signature lines for the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. The lower portion is occupied by two octagonal vignettes on a red ground, each enclosing a Christmas arrangement of candles and fir sprigs. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period existed because the postwar coin shortage left small communities effectively stranded — the central monetary system had collapsed along with the empire, and towns like Bruck im Pinzgau issued their own fractional emergency notes simply to keep local trade functioning. The Salzburg region produced dozens of these municipal issues in 1920, most in small print runs with no formal backing beyond community trust.
The designer credit "Zucker" is uncommon enough in the notgeld record to be worth noting, though attribution details for this specific issue remain sparse.