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20 Heller Hochfilzen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hochfilzen (Municipality of Hochfilzen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two panels printed in dark blue-green on plain paper. The left panel carries a detailed line-art townscape of Hochfilzen with a prominent church steeple, Alpine chalets, and mountain peaks in the background, captioned '2. AUFLAGE' at lower left. The right panel, framed by a wreath border, presents the double-headed Austrian eagle above the denomination '20 20 HELLER', with the place name 'HOCHFILZEN' inscribed at the top and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK.' at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | HOCHFILZEN 20 20 HELLER 2. AUFLAGE WAGNER INNSBRUCK. |
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Hochfilzen is a small village in the Pillersee valley — today better known for its biathlon World Cup venue than for its monetary history. This 20 Heller note was issued by the municipality in 1919 as an Austrian Notgeld, part of the enormous wave of local emergency scrip that flooded the former imperial territories when the collapse of the Habsburg state left a severe shortage of small-denomination coinage. Wagner in Innsbruck printed for dozens of Tyrolean communities during this period, making their output collectively significant even if individual printings were modest.
Hochfilzen's total population at the time was barely in the hundreds. The actual number of notes issued was almost certainly small, which now works in the collector's favor.