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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown woodcut-style vignette occupying the upper portion of the note, rendered in an Expressionist manner, with a mountain church flanked by dark conifers set against a radiating sky; the denomination numeral '50' appears in each of the four corners. The lower panel carries the place-name 'Obernberg' in large Gothic script on a ribbon scroll, below which text confirms the redemption date of 15 October 1920 and identifies this as the second issue ('2. Auflage'), with the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner dieser Gutschein wird bis 15.Okt.1920 eingelöst 2. Auflage Bürgermeister Höhler 50 |
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Obernberg am Brenner sits at roughly 1400 meters in the Wipptal, a village small enough that its wartime Notgeld issue was signed personally by the Bürgermeister rather than by any banking authority. The 50 Heller denomination belongs to the wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency authorized after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left small communities without adequate coin for everyday transactions.
Höhler's signature directly on the face makes every surviving example a quasi-autographed document of hyperlocal administration — a detail that Pick's reference system acknowledges with the "Ib" variety distinction, suggesting at least one parallel issue exists for comparison.