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80 Heller Bruck im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bruck im Pinzgau (Municipality of Bruck im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in expressionist folk-art style, signed 'Zückert 1920', shows a horned devil figure in teal trousers and black coat, holding chains and a rod, leading a small top-hatted man, with sacks in the background. The upper panel carries the Gothic-script inscription 'Ich bin in Bruck im Pinzgau' on a teal ground, flanked by stylised flame motifs in red and green. The denomination '80 Heller wert 80' is printed in large Gothic numerals and lettering across the lower panel. |
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| Reverse description | Upper and lower borders consist of a colourful diamond-pattern decorative band; a small oval vignette at the top centre shows a cloaked figure (Nikolaus/Saint Nicholas) carrying a bundle of fir branches. The central text panel bears the redemption pledge in Gothic script, with three manuscript signatures below: the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. Two rectangular vignettes at the lower border each show a fir-branch arrangement with lit candles on a red ground. |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues produced in the early 1920s, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to fill a coin shortage with low-denomination paper scrip. Bruck im Pinzgau, a small Salzburg market town in the Salzach valley, issued this 80 Heller note under the same legal framework that authorized hundreds of similar Gemeinde issues across Austria between 1919 and 1921.
The designer credit to Zückert is a relative rarity in provincial Notgeld — most small municipalities used anonymous local printers or adapted stock designs. Whether Zückert was a local artist or a commercial designer working across multiple issues is not firmly established.