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25 Heller Gries am Brenner
| Issuer | Municipality of Gries am Brenner |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Hellers (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and tan notgeld printed by letterpress. The upper portion carries a stylized vignette of a regional map with radiating sunburst lines in the background, with the inscriptions 'Gries am Brenner' and 'Salurn' marking geographical localities. Below, a plain panel bears the legend 'Gutschein' flanked by stars, followed by the denomination '25 Heller' in bold type, with the issuing municipality name, redemption date, and a manuscript Bürgermeister signature at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 25 Heller Gries am Brenner Wird bis 15. Okt. 1920 eingelöst. Bgm.: |
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Gries am Brenner sits directly on the Brenner Pass route between Austria and Italy, and in 1920 that geography mattered enormously. The post-war collapse of the Austrian crown had left mountain communities without viable small change, prompting hundreds of Tyrolean municipalities to print their own Notgeld. Gries was among the smallest of these issuers — a village, essentially, operating a printing press out of practical necessity rather than civic vanity.
The Jaksch reference JPR0287Ia places this firmly in the locally printed Tyrolean series, self-produced rather than contracted to a commercial printer.