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80 Heller Brandenberg in Tirol
| Issuer | Municipality of Brandenberg |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown tones on a buff ground, the obverse of this Notgeld issue is set within an octagonal border. To the right, a full-length vignette of a Tyrolean peasant in traditional dress carries a scythe and rake over his shoulder. At upper left, the denomination numeral '80' appears within a bold circular cartouche, while a rectangular panel at centre-left carries the issuing authority's text in German blackletter script, together with the validity date and two manuscript signatures above the roles of Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. The note bears the annotation '3. AUFLAGE' (3rd printing) along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on a buff ground with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire field. At centre, a bold hexagonal cartouche encloses the large numeral '80' above the denomination word 'Heller' in cursive script. Small floral ornaments are placed at each outer corner of the cartouche. The printer's imprint 'WAGNER INNSBRUCK.' appears in small capitals at the base. |
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Brandenberg is a small Tirolean village in the Alpbach Valley — the kind of municipality that issued Notgeld not because it had the administrative apparatus to do so, but because the postwar coin shortage left communities with no practical alternative. The Wagner printworks in Innsbruck produced a significant number of these small-denomination emergency issues for Tirolean communes during 1920–1921, running off local designs on short runs with minimal technical complexity.
The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one, reflecting the chaotic arithmetic of making change when standard coinage had all but vanished from everyday commerce.