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50 Heller Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner
| Issuer | Municipality of Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Woodcut-style vignette in blue on cream paper stock occupies the upper portion of the note, rendered with an alpine church steeple rising above conifers and mountain peaks within a plain rectangular border, the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each corner. The lower panel carries the town name 'Obernberg' in bold Gothic blackletter script above a two-line redemption clause in German script lettering, with the expiry date of 5 October 1920 specified. A facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Hötzler |
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Obernberg am Brenner sits at roughly 1400 meters in the Wipptal, a tiny alpine settlement whose wartime isolation made small-change shortages genuinely acute. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities after 1918, it issued its own Notgeld to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the imperial coinage system — small denominations that the postwar Austrian state was in no position to replace quickly enough for daily village commerce.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0685Ia places this firmly in the documented Tyrolean municipal series. Single-signature issues from settlements this small are among the harder denominations to source in quantity; most printings were brief and local redemption destroyed the bulk of surviving stock.