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40 Heller Brandenberg in Tirol
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg, Tirol |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink Notgeld note printed in dark brown, with a woodcut-style vignette occupying the upper portion showing a capercaillie (Auerhahn) perched among pine branches. The denomination numeral '40' appears in a bold circular cartouche at centre. Below, the text is set in Gothic blackletter script; the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK.' appears at the lower right margin outside the border. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed to the Vizeburgermeister and Burgermeister respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | 40 Heller Brandenberg |
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Brandenberg is a small village in the Inn Valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the postwar economic collapse, it issued its own emergency paper in 1920 when coinage simply vanished from circulation. These Notgeld issues were a direct consequence of metal hoarding and the economic dislocation following Austria-Hungary's dissolution — the new Republic had no reliable mechanism to push small change into rural communities quickly enough.
Wagner in Innsbruck handled a substantial number of Tyrolean municipal issues during this period, which makes attribution straightforward but the individual printings no less local in character. The 40 Heller denomination is mid-range for the series.