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20 Heller Igls
| Issuer | Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol Zwanzig Heller der Kurgemeinde Igls in Tirol, welche für die Einlösung bis zum 31. Dez. 1920 haftet Der Kassier: Der Bürgermeister: 4. Auflage WAGNER, INNSBRUCK |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely engraved panoramic vignette of the resort village of Igls with the Habicht mountain rising behind it, framed within an arched Art Nouveau border decorated with edelweiss and stylised foliage at the corners. Below the vignette, the Tyrolean eagle shield is centred between the denomination numeral '20' at left and a decorative monogram at right. The issuer legend runs along the lower margin in bold Gothic lettering. |
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Igls is a small resort village above Innsbruck, and like hundreds of Austrian and German municipalities during the First World War, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — when coins disappeared from circulation as metal was requisitioned for the war effort. The Kurgemeinde designation is telling: Igls was administered as a spa and resort commune, not a standard municipal authority, which makes its participation in the Notgeld issues slightly unusual.
Wagner was a well-established Innsbruck printing house responsible for numerous Tyrolean Notgeld issues of the period. The 20 Heller denomination sits at the lower end of the practical range for such notes.