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75 Heller Gries am Brenner
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gries am Brenner (Municipality of Gries am Brenner) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Notgeld note is printed in black and red on cream paper, enclosed within a red rectangular border. The central vignette presents a stylized silhouette map of the Tyrol region in black, overlaid at center with a bold red heart motif — a patriotic reference to the 'Tirol in Not' (Tyrol in Distress) theme, with that inscription arching above the map in Gothic lettering. Below the vignette, the issuer name 'Gries am Brenner' appears in large decorative Gothic script flanked by 'am Brenner' on each side, with the denomination '75' and the legend 'Gutschein über Heller' beneath, followed by a validity notice stating redemption by the municipality until 15 October 1920 and a handwritten serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing the plain cream-coloured paper stock with visible show-through of the obverse design as a faint offset impression, and a lightly impressed rectangular border frame near the edges. |
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Gries am Brenner sits directly on the Alpine pass that became an international border in 1919, when the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye stripped Austria of South Tyrol and reoriented the region's trade routes overnight. The Notgeld issued by this small Tyrolean municipality in 1920 belongs to the wave of emergency small-change notes that flooded Austria following wartime coin hoarding and metal shortages — by that point, the central government had effectively abandoned the problem, leaving individual Gemeinden to print their own solutions.
The 75 Heller denomination is slightly unusual within local Notgeld series, which more commonly ran in round values of 10, 20, or 50.