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40 Heller Brandenberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| Value | 40 Hellers (0.4) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld von Brandenberg. Vierzig Heller Giltig bis 31. Jän. 1921 Vizebürgerm. Bürgerm. 2. AUFLAGE WAGNER, INNSBRUCK. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain unbordered paper with a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination '40 Heller' is set in large Gothic blackletter type at the top, below which a boldly rendered heraldic eagle with spread wings and crown occupies the centre field. The municipality name 'Brandenberg' is inscribed in matching Gothic script at the foot. |
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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.