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75 Heller Fieberbrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fieberbrunn (Municipality of Fieberbrunn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned note with a green border. A large ornate Gothic initial letterform occupies the left side as a decorative vignette in black letterpress. To the right, the denomination and issuer text are set in Fraktur blackletter script, with the guarantee clause stating the municipality's full assets as security for redemption until 31 January 1921. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed to the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat, with the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK.' at lower left and '3. AUFLAGE' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-toned note with a green border, printed in black line illustration. The central vignette shows two men dressed in traditional Tyrolean lederhosen on either side of a wooden border post, each pulling or chopping at it; directional signs on the post read 'Nach Oesterreich' and 'Nach Deutschland', set against a mountainous Alpine landscape, rendered in a folk-art woodcut style with fine line hatching throughout. |
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Fieberbrunn is a small Tyrolean village, and this 75 Heller Notgeld is exactly what it looks like: a hyperlocal emergency issue printed to address the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The Wagner press in Innsbruck produced a considerable volume of Tyrolean municipal Notgeld during this period, and the quality is accordingly competent but not distinguished.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR0200c designation places this firmly within the documented Fieberbrunn series. Completists assembling the full run will note that the 75 Heller denomination is the least frequently encountered of the three standard values.