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90 Heller Kössen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kössen (Municipality of Kössen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark red-brown and blue on a cream ground of fine wavy-line guilloche underprint, with a solid blue border. The denomination "90 Heller" is set in large Gothic (Fraktur) script at centre, above the issuing authority text in smaller Fraktur. Below a horizontal rule, the redemption clause and date "Kössen 1919" appear, accompanied by three manuscript signatures for the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. The notation "2. AUFLAGE" (second issue) appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a finely executed topographic vignette in blue and brown-red, enclosed within a rounded rectangular frame, showing a panoramic view of the village of Kössen with its church steeple at centre and the dramatic Tyrolean Alpine massif rising steeply in the background. The denomination numeral "90" appears in Gothic script at both lower corners flanking the place-name inscription. The printer's imprint "WAGNER, INNSBRUCK" is placed at lower right outside the frame. |
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Kössen is a small market town in the Tyrolean lowlands near the Bavarian border, and its municipality issued this 90 Heller note as part of the broader Austrian Notgeld wave that swept through communes large and small following the economic collapse of 1918–1919. The denomination itself — 90 Heller — is notably awkward, a figure that makes sense only as change-filling emergency scrip rather than anything designed around monetary logic.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial share of Tyrolean municipal Notgeld printing in this period, producing competent but unadorned work for dozens of small issuers. The JPR0468a designation suggests this is the first catalogued variety within Kössen's issue — multiple paper types or color variants for the same denomination are common in this series.