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60 Heller Kössen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kössen (Municipality of Kössen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein über Sechzig Heller Für die Einlösung dieses Kassenscheines haftet die Gemeinde Kössen in Tirol mit ihrem Gesamt-Vermögen bis 31. Jänner 1921 Nachdruck verboten Kössen, Juni 1920 Der Gemeinderat: Der Vize-Bürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in two colours — blue and red-brown — on a red-brown wavy-line guilloche background. A rectangular vignette at centre occupies most of the field, showing a large traditional Tyrolean farmhouse with an alpine mountain range in the background, framed by trees and open meadows rendered in fine line engraving. Below the vignette, a decorative ribbon banner carries the inscription 'Kössen 60 in Tirol' in Gothic script, with the numeral '60' set within a framed cartouche at centre; the printer's imprint 'Wagner / Innsbruck' appears at lower right. |
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Kössen is a small market village in Tyrol, near the Bavarian border, and its municipal emergency currency was part of the vast Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communities between 1919 and 1921 when small coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation. Wagner in Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of this regional Notgeld work — the firm was well-positioned to serve Tyrolean municipalities quickly and cheaply during the shortage.
The 60 Heller denomination is specific to the Austrian series; it had no direct equivalent in the German Notgeld issues across the border, reflecting the separate postwar monetary paths the two countries took despite near-identical economic pressures.