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50 Heller Brixlegg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brixlegg (Municipality of Brixlegg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and features a central photographic-style vignette of Schloss Matzen near Brixlegg, set against a mountainous Tyrolean backdrop, enclosed within a ruled rectangular frame. Flanking the central image on either side are symmetrical Art Nouveau decorative columns incorporating stylized foliate motifs and small square ornamental panels with geometric designs. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in white on dark square cartouches in the upper left and upper right corners, and a caption in Gothic script runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller 50 Heller Schloß Matzen bei Brixlegg |
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Brixlegg's 50 Heller notgeld belongs to the vast emergency currency wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921, when chronic coin shortages — driven by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar monetary chaos — forced local councils to print their own small-denomination scrip. The dual signature requirement, here a Vizebürgermeister alongside an illegible Bürgermeister, was the standard local authentication mechanism, giving the notes nominal backing through civic authority rather than any banking institution.
Brixlegg sits in the Inn Valley and had a functioning copper smelter — an irony that a town with working metal infrastructure still resorted to paper for small change.