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20 Heller Brandenberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| In circulation to | 31 January 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld von Brandenberg. Zwanzig Heller Giltig bis 31. Jän. 1921 Vizebürgerm. Bürgerm. 4. AUFLAGE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large hexagonal frame with hatched borders, enclosing the bold denomination numeral '20' rendered with an internal guilloche-style line fill, with the word 'Heller' in flowing script beneath. Four small floral ornaments mark the corners of the composition. The printer's imprint appears at the bottom centre below the hexagon. |
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Brandenberg is a small Tyrolean village in the Inn Valley — the kind of municipality that would never have issued its own currency under normal circumstances. This Heller note exists because Austria's small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation during World War I, hoarded by a public that correctly anticipated worse to come. The response was a wave of Notgeld — emergency scrip — issued by municipalities, businesses, and institutions across the former empire, each legally responsible for its own redemption.
Wagner of Innsbruck printed for numerous Tyrolean communes during this period, making their output voluminous but generally competent. The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch catalogue of Austrian local issues.