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40 Heller Bruck im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bruck im Pinzgau (Municipality of Bruck im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 40 Hellers (0.4) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in folk-art style illustrates a horned devil figure in a black coat and green trousers leading a chained, top-hatted gentleman, with sacks of grain visible in the background, rendered in a colourful hand-illustrated manner signed by the artist and dated 1921 at lower right. The upper panel bears the Gothic-script inscription 'Ich bin in Bruck im Pinzgau' against a teal decorative border with stylised flame motifs in red and green at the sides. The denomination '40 Heller wert 40' is printed in bold Gothic numerals and lettering across the lower panel on a green guilloche ground. |
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| Reverse description | Upper and lower borders carry a colourful diamond-pattern underprint in pink, green, and yellow, with a central oval vignette at the top showing a cloaked Saint Nicholas figure against a winter scene. The central text panel, printed in Gothic script, carries the redemption declaration of the Gemeinde Bruck im Pinzgau redeemable until 15 January 1921, followed by the manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. Two decorative rectangular vignettes at the foot show Advent candles and pine branches on a red ground within the same diamond-patterned border. |
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Bruck im Pinzgau is a small market town in the Salzburg Alps, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 40 Heller denomination sits in the middle of Bruck's series, which was catalogued under the Jaksc/Pick Austrian local issues reference.
These municipal notes were printed in enormous variety across Austria between 1919 and 1921, with quality ranging wildly by commune. Bruck's issues are among the less frequently encountered Salzburg provincial examples in collector holdings today.