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20 Heller Igls
| Issuer | Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark grey-brown on buff paper, with the numeral '20' rendered in large Gothic-style figures at left and right flanking a central vignette of the Schutzhaus am Patscherköfel mountain refuge set against an Alpine landscape, enclosed in a rectangular frame with the caption 'SCHUTZHAUS a. PATSCHERKÖFEL' above. The central text field below the vignette carries a multi-line Gothic script redemption text affirming the liability of the Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol until 31 May 1920, accompanied by two manuscript signatures for the Kassierer and Bürgermeister. The imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' appears at lower left, with the notation '2. Auflage' (second issue) at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | Igls m. Habicht 20 Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol. 20 H |
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Igls is a small village above Innsbruck that functioned — and still functions — primarily as a resort and sanatorium settlement. Its Kurgemeinde, a governing body specific to spa and health communities in the Austrian administrative tradition, issued these Heller notes during the acute small-change shortage that followed Austria's postwar economic collapse. Municipal and quasi-municipal Notgeld of this type flooded the Tyrol in 1920 as federal coinage simply vanished from circulation.
Wagner in Innsbruck was a workhorse regional printer responsible for a substantial portion of Tyrolean Notgeld production, which makes distinguishing between design variants important — the Jaksch reference identifies at least one subdivision within this denomination.