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10 Heller Brixlegg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brixlegg (Municipality of Brixlegg) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green notgeld on paper stock, divided into two panels by a vertical rule border. The left panel carries a black double-headed eagle vignette above a seven-line German verse attributed to Therese Lehmann-Haupt, all enclosed within a decorative frame of corner ornaments. The right panel bears the denomination numeral '10' in black at upper left and right, the inscription 'Zehn Heller' in bold red letterpress, followed by 'GUTSCHEIN / der Gemeinde Brixlegg / in Tirol' in black Gothic script; a large red guilloche underprint numeral '10' is overlaid at centre, with the validity clause 'Giltig bis 1. Oktober 1920' below, and two manuscript signatures above the printed designations 'Der Vizebürgermeister' and 'Der Bürgermeister'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Heller 10 Heller Kurort Brixlegg, Tirol |
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Brixlegg's Heller notgeld belongs to the vast wave of small-denomination emergency issues that flooded the Tyrol — and the rest of Austria — from 1920 onward, as coin shortages made change transactions nearly impossible in market towns. Gemeinde Brixlegg, a copper-mining settlement on the Inn River, issued its own scrip rather than wait for central supply to stabilize.
These municipal pieces were typically printed in small local runs and redeemed quickly once coinage returned, which makes intact surviving examples more common in collector sets than in circulation-worn singles.