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60 Heller Hochfilzen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hochfilzen (Municipality of Hochfilzen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-green ink on plain cream paper with a wavy-line underprint. Denomination panels reading '60 Heller' are set in square frames at upper left and upper right. At centre, a large vignette depicts an ornate footed bowl overflowing with fruit, flanked by wheat ears. To the left, a two-column Gothic-script text block identifies the issuer and states the municipality's full asset guarantee for redemption of the note. To the right, the redemption deadline ('Einwechslung bis 31. Dez. 1920'), the place and date of issue ('Hochfilzen 1919'), and three manuscript signatures with their respective titles — Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat — are arranged in a vertical column. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width woodcut-style vignette of a railway passenger carriage stopped at the Hochfilzen station building, with figures visible through the carriage windows and on the platform. The denomination '60' appears at upper left and the Heller abbreviation 'h.' at upper right. Below the vignette, bold Gothic lettering spells 'Hochfilzen' followed by the inscription 'PASSKONTROLLE'. The printer's imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK' appears at lower right, and the edition notice '2. AUFLAGE' at lower left. |
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Hochfilzen is a small village in the Pillersee Valley in the Tyrolean Alps — remote enough that during the acute coin shortage of 1919–1921, the municipality had little choice but to issue its own emergency scrip. These Gemeindegeld notes, authorized under Austrian federal emergency legislation, flooded the country at the municipal level during this period; Wagner in Innsbruck handled the printing for dozens of such Tyrolean communities, making their output more workmanlike than artistically ambitious.
The 60 Heller denomination is among the less common face values in Notgeld issues, most communities defaulting to 10, 20, or 50 Heller increments.