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50 Heller Brixlegg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brixlegg (Municipality of Brixlegg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green Notgeld voucher with a left-side vertical panel containing a portrait vignette of composer Hugo Wolf in profile, rendered in a fine line-art style, with his name lettered below in decorative script. The main field carries the denomination numeral 50 in each upper corner, the title text in black letterpress, and a large guilloche-style underprint of the denomination numeral 50 in red. Validity and issuing authority lines appear in the lower portion, followed by two manuscript signatures above printed role designations. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller Schloß Matzen bei Brixlegg |
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Brixlegg's 50 Heller notgeld was issued amid the catastrophic inflation and coin hoarding that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The rump Austrian state had essentially lost control of small-denomination circulation by 1920, leaving thousands of municipalities, businesses, and private institutions to print their own emergency scrip. Brixlegg — a small Tyrolean town whose economy centered on copper smelting — was one of hundreds doing so that year.
Tyrolese notgeld from this period was frequently printed locally on whatever paper stock was available, and the quality varies considerably within the same series.