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99 Heller Fieberbrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fieberbrunn (Municipality of Fieberbrunn) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is occupied by a woodcut-style landscape vignette of the Venedigergruppe mountain range as seen from the Loderspitz, captioned accordingly at upper left. At centre, the municipal coat of arms bearing a double-headed eagle is superimposed over the vignette. Below, a rectangular text panel carries the denomination in bold script as '99 Hl.' at left and right, with the guarantee text of the municipality in Gothic letterpress, the place name 'Fieberbrunn 1920', and three manuscript signatures beneath the roles of Gemeinderat, Vizebürgermeister, and Bürgermeister. Numeral underprints appear in the lower corners, and the printer's imprint 'Wagner, Innsbruck' and edition note '3. Auflage' appear at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | WILDALPSEE. |
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Fieberbrunn is a small Tyrolean market village; that it issued its own emergency currency in 1919 places it squarely within the Notgeld phenomenon that swept rural Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Coin shortages were severe enough that hundreds of municipalities — including tiny alpine communities with no meaningful financial infrastructure — contracted local printers to produce low-denomination paper scrip backed by nothing more than municipal goodwill.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a considerable volume of Tyrolean Notgeld commissions during this period. The 99 Heller denomination is characteristically Austrian — the 99 value appearing frequently in this series as a way to avoid rounding to a full Krone.