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20 Heller Brandenberg in Tirol
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| In circulation to | 31 January 1921 |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette in woodcut illustrative style shows two figures in traditional Tyrolean folk costume — a woman in a long skirt and hat alongside a child — set against a lightly shaded ground. To the right, on a stippled field, the denomination numeral '20' is enclosed within a circular guilloche cartouche at upper right, with text inscriptions in Gothic blackletter throughout and two manuscript facsimile signatures below the issuing authority lines. The imprint '3.AUFLAGE' (third printing) appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a bold denomination numeral '20' in a heavily outlined decorative typeface within a hexagonal frame with hatched borders, printed in dark brown on a warm beige wave-pattern underprint. 'Heller' in a matching decorative script appears immediately below the numeral, with four small floral ornament devices at each corner of the composition. The printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK.' is set in small capitals at the foot. |
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Brandenberg is a village in the Inn Valley with a population that barely scraped four hundred in the early twentieth century — which makes this Municipal Heller note an artifact of genuine smallness. During the severe coin shortage of World War One, Austrian municipalities down to the most rural communes were authorized to issue their own emergency Notgeld, and Brandenberg did exactly that. Wagner in Innsbruck printed for dozens of these tiny Tyrolean issuers, running off small batches that rarely needed to survive longer than the shortage itself.
The "c" variant designation in the Jaksc reference suggests at least three distinct printings or paper types exist for this denomination — unusual persistence for a village issuer of this scale.