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30 Heller Kössen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kössen (Municipality of Kössen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0468a-30 |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein über 30 Heller der Gemeinde Kössen in Tirol Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Kössen 1919. Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister Gem. Rat 2. AUFLAGE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and salmon on paper, centred on a detailed vignette of the village of Kössen set against an Alpine mountain backdrop with a church steeple rising above the rooftops of traditional Tyrolean farm buildings. The numeral '30' appears in large figures at the upper left corner within the wavy-line guilloche border that frames the entire composition. A decorative ribbon cartouche at the foot of the vignette carries the place name inscription. |
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Kössen is a small market village in the Tyrolean district of Kufstein, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1919, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to fill the coin vacuum left by wartime hoarding and metal requisitions. The 30 Heller denomination is one of the more uncommon face values in the Tyrolean municipal series; most communities defaulted to 10, 20, or 50.
The JPR reference indicates this belongs to the Jaksch-catalogued Austrian local issues, a notoriously incomplete series where surviving print runs are small and population figures uncertain. Kössen's issues are not among the heavily collected Tyrolean pieces, which keeps prices honest.