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| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Innsbruck |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Innsbruck Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städt. Kassen für 20 Heller in Zahlung genommen und vom 1. bis 31. Mai 1919 von diesen in gesetzlicher Währung eingelöst. Innsbruck, 1. Dez. 1918. Der Bürgermeister: Wilhelm Greil Nur gültig bis 31. Mai 1919 |
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| Signature(s) | Wilhelm Greil |
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Innsbruck's wartime Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued after the Austro-Hungarian monetary system buckled under the strain of the First World War. The Stadtgemeinde issued these small denominations to address a practical, immediate problem: the hoarding and disappearance of metal coinage from everyday commerce.
Wilhelm Greil, who signed this note, served as Bürgermeister of Innsbruck during this period — his tenure running directly through the collapse of the Habsburg administration in late 1918.