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10 Heller Brixlegg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brixlegg (Municipality of Brixlegg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted Notgeld issued on a plain paper ground, divided into two panels by a vertical rule. The left panel carries a black double-headed eagle vignette above an eight-line patriotic verse attributed to Therese Lehmann-Haupt, printed in Gothic (Fraktur) script. The right panel bears the denomination numeral '10' in the upper corners, the large Gothic legend 'GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde Brixlegg in Tirol', the face value '10 Heller' in bold shadowed numerals, the validity clause 'Giltig bis 1. Oktober 1920', and two manuscript signatures below the printed titles 'Der Vizebürgermeister' and 'Der Bürgermeister'. The entire design is contained within a simple ruled border with corner ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Green-tinted reverse printed in the Jugendstil manner, with symmetrical Art Nouveau side panels of sinuous foliate tendrils and pairs of stylised alpine motifs in decorative squares flanking a central photographic vignette of the resort town of Brixlegg set against a mountain backdrop, showing the church spire and village rooftops in the valley. Denomination panels reading '10 Heller' are placed in the upper left and upper right corners. The place name inscription appears in a cartouche at the foot of the central image. |
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Brixlegg's 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian municipal notgeld that flooded the country following the collapse of the Habsburg economy and the currency chaos of the early republic. With small change coins hoarded or simply absent from circulation, hundreds of Tyrolean towns and villages printed their own low-denomination emergency paper — Brixlegg among them. The 10 Heller denomination was among the most common targets for this stopgap issuance, useful for the smallest daily transactions that metal coinage could no longer reliably serve.
Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was typically printed locally in short runs, which accounts for the considerable variation in paper quality and printing precision across surviving examples from different communities.