1/2 Krone Bruck im Pinzgau

One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency issues printed in the wake of the economic collapse following World War One. These Gemeindenotgeld were authorized locally to address a genuine small-denomination coin shortage — the state simply could not produce enough fractional currency to keep commerce moving at the village level. Bruck im Pinzgau, a small market town in the Salzburg Alps, issued this half-Krone as functional spending money, not as a collector piece, though the notgeld collecting craze that swept Austria and Germany almost immediately meant many were saved unspent.

The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the third series of Bruck issues. Designer credit to Zucker appears on several Salzburg regional notgeld of this period.