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70 Heller Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner
| Issuer | Gemeinde Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner (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 | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the obverse carries a bold woodcut-style vignette in the upper portion showing an Alpine landscape with a church steeple and mountain peaks set against a radiating sunburst sky. The denomination numeral '70' appears in each of the four corners within the border. Below the vignette, the place name 'Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner' is rendered in large decorative script, followed by the validity text, the notation '2. Auflage' (second issue), and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister (Höhsler). |
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| Obverse lettering | 70 Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner Dieser Gutschein wird bis 5. Okt. 1920 eingelöst Bürgermeister Höhsler 2. Auflage |
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One of hundreds of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues from the postwar inflation period, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments printing their own small-denomination notes to cover the chronic coin shortage. Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner — a small Tyrolean village near the Brenner Pass — issued these alongside notes in other denominations under the same series reference.
The Jaksc/Pick classification JPR0685Ib places this within the broader Tyrolean municipal corpus. Survival rates for rural Tyrolean Heller notes vary sharply; many were redeemed and pulped, while others were retained by collectors almost immediately, the Notgeld hobby having been well established in Austria even during active circulation.