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10 Heller Hochfilzen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hochfilzen (Municipality of Hochfilzen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Issued on a grey-green wavy-line underprint, the obverse is divided into three vertical panels. The left panel carries the municipality's liability text in German blackletter script. The central panel presents a vignette of a snow-laden conifer within a decorative oval cartouche with ornamental scroll borders. The right panel bears the denomination '10 Heller' in bold Gothic type, with the redemption notice and issuance date 'Hochfilzen 1919' below; three manuscript facsimile signatures of the Gemeinderat, Bürgermeister, and Vizebürgermeister appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely occupied by a finely rendered landscape vignette in dark blue-green ink on plain paper, executed in a woodcut or linecut style. It depicts a panoramic winter view of the Hochfilzen valley with a church steeple and alpine farmhouses set against snow-covered mountain slopes. The place name 'HOCHFILZEN' is lettered within the lower portion of the image, with '2. AUFLAGE' (second issue) at lower left and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK' at lower right. |
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Hochfilzen is a small village in the Pillersee Valley of the Tyrol, and its decision to issue emergency paper money in 1919 was entirely typical of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities when small coin effectively vanished from circulation in the final years of the Habsburg state and the chaotic months that followed its collapse. Wagner in Innsbruck was the go-to regional printer for Tyrolean Notgeld, producing issues for dozens of villages across the Inn valley and its tributaries during this period.
The 10 Heller denomination was the workhorse of local Austrian emergency issues — enough to make change for bread, not enough to hoard.