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50 Heller Kössen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kössen (Municipality of Kössen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned note with a wavy-line guilloche underprint in dark blue. To the left, a bold heraldic eagle vignette in the Tyrolean tradition faces right with wings spread; to the right, the denomination '50 Heller' is set in large Gothic script with the numeral in dark red. Below the issuer text, three manuscript signatures appear above their respective title labels, with the notation '2. AUFLAGE' (second printing) at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kössen in Tirol 50 WAGNER INNSBRUCK |
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Kössen is a small market village in the Tyrolean district of Kitzbühel, and this 50 Heller Notgeld was issued in 1919 when the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system had left local municipalities scrambling to produce their own small-denomination emergency notes. The commercial printer Wagner of Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of these municipal issues across Tirol during this period — the same firm appears across numerous Gemeinde commissions from the same months.
The Heller denomination itself was already politically awkward by 1919: the new Republic of German-Austria was in the process of replacing imperial coinage, and notes like this one filled a gap that formal monetary policy had not yet closed.