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| Issuer | Ladiner Verein Innsbruck |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | FASSA JUST'L DA T. JSOLL 10 HELLER DER LADINER VEREIN LOST DIESEN GUT SCHEIN BIS 31. XII. 1920 EIN DER OBMANN: |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing a pale blind impression of the obverse design through the thin paper stock, with no additional text or design elements intentionally applied. |
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The Ladiner Verein was a cultural association representing the Ladin-speaking minority of the South Tyrol — a community whose political situation had just been upended by Italy's annexation of the region following the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This note is a Notgeld piece issued from Innsbruck, where a Ladin diaspora community had established roots, and reflects the broader Austrian emergency currency wave of 1919–1922 driven by coin shortages and monetary chaos in the post-Habsburg rump state.
That a small ethnic-cultural association issued its own scrip is itself notable — Notgeld issuers were typically municipalities, savings banks, or industrial firms, not advocacy organizations for displaced linguistic minorities.