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2 1/2 Kronen Hall in Tirol
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hall in Tirol |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Left half carries a circular vignette portrait of Schützenmajor J.J. Straub, Kronenwirt in Hall, set within a laurel wreath on a hatched brown ground, with the date split numerals '18' and '09' flanking the frame below. The right half bears the large denomination '2 1/2 Kr.' in bold Gothic script above a five-line redemption text in Kurrent hand, dated Hall, 30. Mai 1920, with two manuscript signatures for the Bürgermeister and Stadtkämmerer below. The imprint '4. AUFLAGE' appears at lower left and 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels: a crowned eagle with chained talons perches on a rocky outcrop at centre, flanked by two Tyrolean mountain landscape vignettes rendered in a woodcut-like letterpress style. Patriotic verse in two columns of Gothic Kurrent script fills the upper portion of the outer panels, evoking the freedom of the Tyrolean homeland. The printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' appears at lower left. |
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Hall in Tirol, a small town east of Innsbruck with a long history in salt mining and minting, issued this Notgeld piece during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's postwar economic collapse. Municipal and local authorities across the former Habsburg lands filled the gap left by vanishing small-denomination coinage, and Wagner of Innsbruck handled production for several Tyrolean communities during this period.
The 2½ Kronen denomination is an awkward unit — unusual enough to suggest it was calculated against a specific local pricing need rather than issued as a round figure for general convenience.