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60 Heller Brandenberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse in brown on a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint ground, with a large octagonal border frame enclosing an oversized bold numeral '60' above the word 'Heller' in Gothic script. Small ornamental rosette devices appear at each of the four corners of the note, and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK.' is set at the bottom centre beneath the frame. |
| Reverse lettering | 60 Heller WAGNER INNSBRUCK. |
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Brandenberg is a small Tyrolean village in the Rofan foothills, and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1921 places this squarely within the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the economic collapse after the First World War. Municipal authorities across the Tyrol — including communities far too small to have any obvious monetary infrastructure — were effectively forced into local currency production when chronic coin shortages made everyday commerce unworkable. Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial share of this regional Notgeld printing work, supplying dozens of Tyrolean municipalities through this period.
The 60 Heller denomination is the highest in the Brandenberg series under this reference, suggesting it was intended to cover slightly larger routine transactions.