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20 Heller Brandenberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is occupied by a woodcut-style vignette of two chamois (Gämsen) standing on a rocky Alpine landscape, rendered in fine letterpress. Centred below the vignette is a large numeral '20' within an oval cartouche, flanked by decorative foliate borders. The lower panel carries the issuing text in Gothic blackletter script, with two manuscript signatures above the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' and the edition notice '2. AUFLAGE' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain buff paper in a simple, unadorned letterpress layout. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in bold Gothic blackletter at the top, and the issuer name 'Brandenberg' in matching script at the foot. The central motif is a large heraldic double-headed eagle with spread wings, rendered in a woodcut manner consistent with Austrian municipal Notgeld typology. |
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Brandenberg is a small Tyrolean village in the Inn valley, and its decision to issue Heller-denomination notgeld places this squarely in the Austrian municipal emergency currency wave of 1919–1921, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without enough small change to function. Wagner of Innsbruck was the workhorse printer for dozens of these Tyrolean issues — the same shop produced notgeld for numerous nearby communes in rapid succession, which occasionally creates attribution headaches when undated or unlabeled examples surface.
The JPR0099bA designation suggests a variant within the Brandenberg series, worth verifying against the full Jaksch listing for paper color or overprint differences.