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20 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 | Olive-green Notgeld on paper with a decorative ruled border. At left, a vertical vignette presents a black-and-white landscape view of the Tyrolean mountains above the town of Brixlegg, with the caption 'Mineralheilbad Mehrn b. Brixlegg' below. The main field carries the denomination '20' at upper left and right, the title 'Zwanzig Heller' in red letterpress, and the text 'GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde Brixlegg in Tirol über 20 Heller.' centred, with a red eagle underprint behind the large numeral. Validity is stated as 'Giltig bis 1. Oktober 1920', with two manuscript signatures below the roles of Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Zwanzig Heller GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde Brixlegg in Tirol über 20 Heller. Giltig bis 1. Oktober 1920. Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Mineralheilbad Mehrn b. Brixlegg |
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Brixlegg's 20 Heller Notgeld emerged from the acute coin shortage that gripped Austrian municipalities after the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments across Tirol printing their own emergency paper in denominations too small for any bank to bother with — fractions of a Krone that nonetheless mattered for daily trade in a market town of this size.
Brixlegg was notable as a copper-smelting center, which adds a certain irony to the need for paper substitutes where metal coin should have circulated freely.