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90 Heller Kössen in Tirol
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kössen (Municipality of Kössen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | A central rectangular vignette in blue and brown letterpress renders a panoramic view of the village of Kössen set against a dramatic Alpine backdrop, with a prominent church steeple rising at centre and Tyrolean farmhouses to either side. The denomination numeral '90' appears in large blue Gothic figures at both lower left and lower right corners, flanking the place-name inscription 'Kössen in Tirol' in matching script along the lower margin. A fine wavy-line guilloche fills the paper background outside the vignette border, and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' is noted at lower right with the note 'B. AUFLAGE' along the right edge. |
| Reverse lettering | 90 Kössen in Tirol 90 WAGNER, INNSBRUCK B. AUFLAGE |
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Kössen is a small market village in the Tyrolean district of Kitzbühel, and this 90 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local communities without adequate small change. Wagner of Innsbruck handled an enormous volume of these Tyrolean community issues between 1919 and 1921 — the firm was essentially the default regional printer for Notgeld series across the Inn valley and surrounding districts.
The denomination itself is mildly unusual. Most issues gravitated toward round figures; 90 Heller suggests Kössen was deliberately filling a gap left by other denominations already in circulation locally.