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75 Heller Bruck im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bruck im Pinzgau (Municipality of Bruck im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 75 Hellers (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | 75 Heller 75 |
| Reverse description | Colorful geometric diamond-pattern border in pink, green, and blue frames the entire note. At the upper centre, a small oval vignette shows a figure of Saint Nicholas in red robes against a winter landscape. The central text panel carries the redemption notice in Gothic blackletter script, below which appear three manuscript signatures — those of the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. At the foot, two octagonal vignettes on a red ground each show an Advent candle arrangement with evergreen sprigs. |
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Bruck im Pinzgau is a small Alpine municipality in Salzburg province, and this 75 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1922 when the collapsed Habsburg monetary system left communities printing their own emergency fractional currency. Thousands of municipalities did the same, but the Pinzgau issues attracted collector attention early — the region's notes were often produced with more graphic care than purely utilitarian emergency scrip warranted.
The designer credit to Zückert places this within a documented group of Salzburg-area Notgeld commissions, though the printing house is unrecorded in the Jaksch corpus for this specific reference.