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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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| Value | 70 Hellers (0.7) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the upper portion of the note carries a woodcut-style vignette of a church tower set against an alpine mountain landscape with stylised conifer trees, enclosed within a decorative jagged border; the denomination numeral '70' appears in each of the four corners. The lower panel bears the place name 'Obernberg' in large Gothic script followed by 'bei Gries am Brenner', with a redemption notice and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister (Hölzler) in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner dieser Gutschein wird bis 15. Oct. 1920 eingelöst. Bürgermeister Hölzler 70 |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues printed during the post-WWI economic collapse, when chronic coin shortages forced individual municipalities to issue their own low-denomination emergency scrip. Obernberg am Brenner sits at high altitude on the Brenner Pass — strategically critical territory that had just been partitioned under the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1919, with the southern Brenner corridor handed to Italy. The village remained on the Austrian side, barely.
The Jaksc catalog prefix JPR places this within the broader Tirol regional Notgeld classification. 70-Heller denominations are among the less common face values in Austrian municipal issues.