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99 Heller - Fieberbrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fieberbrunn (Municipality of Fieberbrunn) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 99 Hellers (0.99) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a blue border with a landscape vignette at the top centre showing the Venedigergruppe mountain range as seen from the Loderspitz, captioned accordingly. A central text panel carries the denomination '99 Hl.' twice in large script numerals flanking a municipal eagle coat of arms, beneath which the redemption guarantee text is printed in German, dated Fieberbrunn 1919. At the foot of the note, three signature lines are designated for Gemeinderat, Vizebürgermeister, and Bürgermeister, with manuscript signatures, and the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' and edition note '1. AUFLAGE' appear in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | WILDALPSEE |
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Fieberbrunn's 99 Heller denomination is immediately unusual — the figure is deliberate, not a rounding artifact. Austrian Notgeld communities frequently avoided round numbers to complicate counterfeiting and to deter hoarding, since an odd value was harder to accumulate into clean sums. Whether Fieberbrunn's municipal council chose 99 for that reason or simply to fill a specific change gap in local commerce in 1919 is unrecorded, but the denomination sits in good company among the more eccentric Tyrolean issues of that period.
Wagner of Innsbruck was a workhorse printer for Tyrolean municipal Notgeld, handling dozens of small-commune commissions during the postwar shortage years.