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30 Heller Hall in Tirol

Issuer Stadtgemeinde Hall in Tirol
Year 1920
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Value 30 Hellers (0.3)
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Reverse description Warm beige note with a panoramic vignette of the town of Hall in Tirol, rendered in detailed letterpress line-work showing church towers, rooftops, surrounding foliage, and the Alpine massif beyond under a pale sky. Decorative guilloche-patterned vertical borders frame the left and right edges, each surmounted by a heraldic shield — the Tyrolean eagle at left and the Hall civic arms at right. The denomination '30' is printed in large bold numerals at lower left and 'hl' at lower right, with the caption 'Stadt Hall in Tirol.' in Gothic script at upper right. The printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' appears below the lower-left border.
Reverse lettering Stadt Hall in Tirol.
30
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WAGNER, INNSBRUCK
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Hall in Tirol was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced into emergency money production after the postwar collapse of the central banking system left small denominations effectively unavailable. The Stadtgemeinde issued these Heller notes under the Notgeld framework that swept through Austria and Germany between 1919 and 1921, with Wagner of Innsbruck handling the local print run — a regional firm that took on considerable volume from Tyrolean communes during this period.

The 30 Heller denomination sits in the awkward middle of the Heller notgeld range, issued to fill gaps that neither coins nor larger paper could practically cover.

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