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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 | A letterpress panoramic vignette of the Venedigergruppe mountain range as seen from the Loderspitz occupies the upper portion, rendered in fine line engraving with bold black silhouetted foreground ridges against a hatched sky. The municipal eagle coat of arms is centred below the vignette, flanked by the denomination '99 Hl.' in large italic script on each side. A text panel below carries the redemption guarantee legend with three manuscript signatures above printed role titles for Gemeinderat, Vizebürgermeister, and Bürgermeister, with the imprint '4. AUFLAGE' at lower left and 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' at lower right, the whole enclosed within a blue rectangular border. |
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| Reverse description | A letterpress landscape vignette of a broad Alpine valley identified as the Gebra Bergwerk mine workings occupies the central field, executed in stipple and line engraving with mountains receding into a lightly hatched sky. A heraldic shield bearing two crossed hammers — the traditional mining emblem — appears in the upper right corner, printed in black. The composition is enclosed within the same blue rectangular border as the obverse, with the caption 'GEBRA BERGWERK' as the sole textual element. |
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Fieberbrunn is a small Tyrolean market village, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1919 was driven by the same coin shortage that pushed hundreds of Austrian municipalities into emergency paper printing that year — the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system had left metal coinage almost entirely out of circulation. Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial volume of Tyrolean municipal notgeld during this period, acting as the practical solution for communities too small to have any printing infrastructure of their own.
The 99 Heller denomination is characteristically Austrian notgeld — odd values like this were deliberate, intended to discourage hoarding by making change-giving awkward without the issuing authority's own scrip.