50 Heller Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner

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.