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10 Heller Kössen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kössen (Municipality of Kössen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on salmon-pink paper with a wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire surface. The left panel bears the large Gothic numeral denomination '10 Hl' above a central vignette of an edelweiss flower, with the issuing locality 'Kössen' and date '1919' below. The right panel carries the text of the Kassenschein in Gothic blackletter script, including the validity clause 'Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920,' and three manuscript signatures for the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat; the printer's imprint 'Wagner, Innsbruck' and edition note '2. Auflage' appear in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Hl Kössen. 1919. Zehn Heller Kassenschein der Gemeinde Kössen i. Tirol Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920. Bürgermeister: Vizebürgerm: Gem. Rat: 2. Auflage WAGNER, INNSBRUCK |
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Kössen is a small village in the Kitzbühel district of Tyrol, and this 10 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency issues — Notgeld — produced in the chaotic period following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. The sudden disappearance of reliable small change in 1918–1919 forced communes of every size to print their own fractional currency, with Wagner in Innsbruck handling a substantial share of the Tyrolean output.
The JPR0468a prefix in the Jaksch catalog places this firmly within the documented Kössen series, which covered multiple denominations. Small-commune issues like this typically circulated briefly and locally before being redeemed and destroyed — survivors tend to come from uncirculated remainder stocks rather than actual pocket wear.