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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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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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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. |
| Reverse lettering | 60 h. Hochfilzen PASSKONTROLLE 2. AUFLAGE WAGNER INNSBRUCK |
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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.