50 Heller Gries am Brenner

Gries am Brenner is a small Tyrolean village sitting directly on the Brenner Pass — one of the most strategically trafficked mountain corridors in Europe — yet in 1920 its municipality was printing its own emergency paper money for want of small coin. This was the Notgeld phenomenon at its most local: Austria's postwar coinage supply had collapsed so completely that even transit villages on an international trade route were issuing their own scrip to make change.

The Jaksch reference places this firmly in the Tyrolean municipal series. These hyperlocal issues rarely traveled far; most were redeemed within months and destroyed, making survivors more common in collections than in the wild.