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20 Heller Imst

Issuer Stadtgemeinde Imst
Year 1921
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Value 20 Hellers (0.20)
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Reverse description Printed in pale brown on cream paper, the reverse repeats the same compositional layout as the obverse but without colour infill, giving a lighter, monochrome appearance. The two carnival figures with floral headdresses and mask faces flank the central '20' tablet, with the Imst town arms below; the full obligation text is repeated in the lower field with the Bürgermeister signature at right. No printer's imprint or edition note appears on this side.
Reverse lettering STADTGEMEINDE IMST
KASSENSCHEIN ÜBER ZWANZIG HELLER:
DER BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 VON DER STADTGEMEINDE
IMST EINGELÖST WIRD NACH AHMUNG WIRD VERFOLGT
BÜRGERMEISTER
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Imst is a market town in the Tyrolean Inn valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in the early 1920s it issued its own small-denomination Notgeld to plug the chronic shortage of coin that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The Deutsche Buchdruckerei in Innsbruck handled a substantial portion of Tyrolean municipal emergency paper during this period, printing for multiple towns across the region — which means design quality and paper stock are relatively consistent across the series, but individual town issues can still be distinguished by their text and local authority marks.

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