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80 Heller Brandenberg in Tirol
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink note with a wavy-line guilloche underprint across the entire field. A large heraldic double-headed eagle vignette in dark brown occupies the centre, rendered in a bold woodcut style consistent with Tyrolean municipal notgeld of the period. The denomination '80 Heller' is inscribed in Gothic Fraktur script at the top, and the issuer name 'Brandenberg' appears in matching script at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 80 Heller Brandenberg |
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Brandenberg is a small village in the Alpbach Valley of Tyrol, and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1920 was entirely typical of the Austrian *Notgeld* phenomenon — the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities across the former empire scrambling to fill a severe coin shortage with locally printed paper. Wagner in Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of these Tyrolean community issues, which accounts for the consistent print quality across many villages that had no printing infrastructure of their own.
The 80 Heller denomination is slightly unusual — most series leaned on rounder values.