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| Issuer | Gemeinde Fieberbrunn (Municipality of Fieberbrunn) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Venedigergruppe von der Loderspitz 99 Hl. 99 Hl. Die Gemeinde Fieberbrunn haftet mit ihrem Vermögen für die Einlösung dieses Scheines bis zum 31. Dez. 1920 Fieberbrunn 1919. Gemeinderat: Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister: 4. AUFLAGE WAGNER, INNSBRUCK |
| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a finely executed letterpress landscape vignette of the Wildalpsee, a mountain lake in the Tyrolean Alps, with dramatic rocky peaks and a small alpine structure reflected in the still water. The caption 'WILDALPSEE' is inscribed in the upper left corner of the vignette. The composition is set within a blue rectangular border identical to that of the obverse, against a wavy-line guilloche background underprint. |
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Fieberbrunn is a small Tyrolean village that, like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1919, was forced to print its own emergency small change after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left coin virtually absent from circulation. These Notgeld issues were a practical stopgap, not a political statement — the Gemeinde simply needed something people could use at the baker and the butcher.
Wagner in Innsbruck handled much of the Tyrolean municipal Notgeld production during this period, which gives the series a degree of printing consistency unusual among Austrian village issues. The JPR0200a designation groups the Fieberbrunn set; the 99 Heller denomination is the highest in the series.