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40 Heller - Fieberbrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fieberbrunn (Municipality of Fieberbrunn) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 40 Hellers (0.4) |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is occupied by a detailed intaglio vignette of the Wildseeloder rock formation, rendered in dark brown on a buff-toned paper ground with a fine wavy guilloche underprint. To the right, the denomination '40 Hl.' is set in bold gothic script at upper right, followed by the issuing authority, validity date, place and year of issue, and three manuscript signatures beneath printed role designations for Bürgermeister, Gemeinderat, and Vizebürgermeister. The note is framed by a double-rule blue border, with the printer's imprint 'Wagner, Innsbruck' and edition notice '2. Auflage' appearing in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on buff paper with a horizontally ruled wavy-line underprint across the entire field. A large central oval vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Fieberbrunn, with the village church spire and surrounding alpine valley rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination numeral '40' appears in large gothic characters at both the left and right margins, each paired with the abbreviation 'Hl.' below, and the place name 'FIEBERBRUNN' is inscribed at the top of the oval frame. A dark blue double-rule border encloses the design. |
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Fieberbrunn is a small market village in the Pillersee valley of Tyrol, and like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities in 1919, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Wagner in Innsbruck was a regional commercial printer with no particular banknote pedigree, and the Tyrolean municipal issues it produced tend to be typographically simple compared to the more elaborate Notgeld coming out of Vienna or German cities at the same time.
The 40 Heller denomination is slightly unusual — most Gemeinde issues defaulted to round figures like 10, 20, or 50.