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90 Heller Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner
| Issuer | Gemeinde Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner (Municipality of Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 15 October 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on buff paper stock, the upper portion carries an expressionist woodcut-style vignette of an Alpine church tower rising above conifers and mountain peaks, enclosed within a ruled border with corner ornaments. The place name 'Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner' is set in bold Gothic script across a diagonal banner in the lower half, with the validity clause and Bürgermeister signature line beneath. The notation '4. Auflage' (4th edition) appears at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner Dieser Gutschein wird bis 15. Okt. 1920 eingelöst Bürgermeister 4. Auflage |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues flooding circulation between 1919 and 1922, this 90 Heller piece from Obernberg am Brenner reflects the near-total collapse of small change availability in the immediate postwar period. The central government in Vienna simply could not supply enough low-denomination coin to rural Tyrol, and hundreds of municipalities printed their own stopgap scrip under informal federal tolerance.
The Brenner corridor location gives this particular commune a geographic footnote: the 1919 Saint-Germain treaty had just cut the former Austrian South Tyrol from Innsbruck's orbit, and communities straddling or near the new Italian border faced acute economic dislocation on top of the general currency chaos.