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90 Heller Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner
| Issuer | Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, the upper portion carries a woodcut-style vignette of a village church set against an Alpine mountain landscape, enclosed within a decorative border with diamond-shaped corner ornaments. The lower panel bears the locality name in large stylised script above a redemption text, with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature and the notation '2. Auflage' (second edition) at foot. The entire design reflects the hand-crafted Notgeld aesthetic typical of Tyrolean emergency currency of the early 1920s. |
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| Obverse lettering | Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner Dieser Gutschein wird bis 5. Okt. 1920 eingelöst Bürgermeister 2. Auflage |
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Obernberg am Brenner is a small Tyrolean village sitting almost exactly on the main Alpine transit route between Innsbruck and the Brenner Pass. This 90 Heller note is a Notgeld issue, one of thousands of emergency municipal scrip pieces produced across Austria between 1919 and 1921 when small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system.
The 90 Heller denomination is distinctly odd — a deliberate collector-bait value, common among the so-called "Seriennotgeld" wave, where municipalities issued unusual face values knowing philatelists and notgeld collectors would absorb them without ever spending them.