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40 Heller Brandenberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Within a rectangular border, a woodcut-style vignette occupies the upper portion, depicting a capercaillie perched on a pine branch with wings spread, set against a mountainous landscape. The denomination numeral '40' appears within a circular device at centre, below which the issuing authority and value are inscribed in Gothic blackletter script. Two facsimile signatures appear at the foot of the note beneath the titles 'Vizebürgerm.' and 'Bürgerm.', with the printer's imprint and edition note ('2. AUFLAGE') printed below the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld von Brandenberg. Vierzig Heller Giltig bis 31. Jän. 1921 Vizebürgerm. Bürgerm. 2. AUFLAGE WAGNER, INNSBRUCK. |
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Brandenberg is a small Tyrolean village in the Inn Valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during and after World War One, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to address the collapse of coin circulation caused by metal hoarding and wartime requisitioning. Wagner in Innsbruck was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which explains the relatively modest production quality typical of Tyrolean municipal issues in this series.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the broader Austrian Notgeld corpus. Forty Heller was a common face value for local scrip — enough for small transactions, unlikely to be counterfeited profitably.